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A/UX 3.1.1 open source packages

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bbraun

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For those interested, I've put most of what I've compiled for A/UX 3.1.1 on my public iDisk:

http://public.me.com/robbraun/m68k-apple-aux3/

All packages are built with their own prefix into /usr/local/(pkg)-(vers), and the archives contain the full path. They're intended to be extracted from /.

A/UX has a pretty short path length limitation, so I recommend symlink where necessary.

Known issues are:

sshd crashes on client connection, there's a problem with dropping privs. Client and scp work fine.

cadaver can sometimes crash when listing directories with lots of files.

I've built these mostly for my own use, but I thought I'd post a link here in case others found them useful as well.

 
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bbraun

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There's not too much patching going on. I took the gcc-2.7.2.3 patches from the old jaguabox archives and rebuilt gcc-2.7.2.3 in the same prefixing scheme, then went through and just built everything else. Some gets tricky due to some pretty basic ordering, largely revolving around autoconf's requirements including a reasonable grep and shell, bison, flex, m4, etc.

Some missing libc functions were taken from 4.4BSD-Lite2, but that's about it. It mostly came down to having the right basic set of tools, and frequently setting the right autoconf variables.

The collection as it stands represents about a month of work, on and off, but it's nothing spectacular. It just might save other people some time, since compilation isn't terribly fast on these older machines, and getting the prereqs right is just tedious.

I know others have successfully built X11R6 of some kind, as it's on aux-penelope, but it has been giving me some trouble with the C preprocessor. If I can get a usable X11R6, I've already got most of the non-graphical gtk+ requirements built, and I'd ultimately like to get netsurf building.

 
ChristTrekker

ChristTrekker

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A modern GUI browser would be pretty cool.

I'm still trying to get pkgsrc ported. I've been off that project for awhile working on other things, though.

I'd like to try to get FLTK working. It's such a small library, that I'd think performance even on Quadras might not be too bad.

 
highlandcattle

highlandcattle

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Netsurf would be awesome. I've used it on my Acorn A7000 which runs at 30mhz without fpu and it was suprisingly usefull.

I have yet to install A/UX because I can't find the 3,11 disc apparently the disc image a t macintosh garden is corrupt.

 
ChristTrekker

ChristTrekker

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One of the big hurdles to getting NetSurf on A/UX would probably be getting a modern-ish GTK to build/work. I've no idea if the framebuffer version would work or not. Does anyone have experience with NetSurf on other platforms?

 
ChristTrekker

ChristTrekker

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FWIW, I finally got around to trying some of this stuff out. I'm using bash3 for my normal user shell now. Leaving root's as the old bash1 for the time being though.

 
tecneeq

tecneeq

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Would someone mind mirroring this stuff on the actual internet, so that it's not behind apples paywall?

The website says my Browser (Firefox 7.0.1 on amd64 Debian) is not supported and redirects me to a apple.com shop. Where i can't shop, because my browser is not supported. :lol:

 
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bbraun

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These were all uploaded directly from A/UX using open source tools. There is no need to pay anything.

 
tecneeq

tecneeq

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It's good that they allow uploads using open source tools.

My problem is downloading, it just isn't allowed for some reason. Doesn't work with Konqueror either (nor Lynx :lol: ). Maybe it's some US copyright thing, since i'm trying to access from germany?

 
johnklos

johnklos

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It's not really a paywall, but it is a broken interface. You can't use it with old browsers or without Javascript.

Does anyone here know how to mirror a MobileMe web page? I'd happily mirror it on mac68k.org.

 
tecneeq

tecneeq

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A mirror would be nice. I would love to mirror the mirror ;) .

I can also create an account on uberhost for ftp, scp or rsync uploads to a web shared userdirectory. Everybody loves apache directory listings. :lol:

 
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