From news.cs.indiana.edu!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!updike!ric Tue May 4 09:04:52 EDT 1993 Article: 3207 of comp.unix.solaris Path: babbage.ece.uc.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!updike!ric From: ric@updike.sri.com (Richard Steinberger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris Subject: Solaris Sw List Date: 3 May 1993 19:51:16 GMT Organization: sri Lines: 379 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s3t3k$q0l@unix.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: updike.sri.com Originator: ric@updike It's getting a bit difficult to keep track of every software product, commercial and free, that runs under Solaris 2.X. If there is something you are interested in and you don't see it here, try to contact the author or vendor. If the program runs under Solaris, you can let me know the name and version number. If it's available as source code, try to include the conditions for compilation (e.g., will gcc and/or SUN C work). I DON'T HAVE INFORMATION about programs that are not listed here. =========================================================================== Solaris SW list. Maintained by ric@updike.sri.com. Ric Steinberger. Last updated: 04/26/93 Solaris 2.x compatibility information. Here is an attempt to provide some information about SW that may run under SUN's Solaris 2.x OS. Feel free to send additional information regarding other tools that you would like to see included. If possible, include details as to whether that product runs under 2.x [include x]. This list is now available via anonymous FTP from updike.sri.com. Please send suggestions to: ric@updike.sri.com. Use archie or other database to find out where these tools reside. Most of the GNU programs are on prep.ai.mit.edu. Many X11 programs are on export.lcs.mit.edu. pit-manager.mit.edu is a source for many other programs. So is ftp.uu.net. Other FREE SW and DOCS is available via anon FTP from opcom.sun.ca. Files are also available via EMAIL: Send a message to ftp@opcom.sun.ca. [Last time I tried this, it didn't work. rhs 2/24/93] "help" should be in the subject line. Hooray for The Great White North! I will only list a site if a "customized" 2.x-compatible version or patches exist there. [I would prefer not to get in the business of listing distribution sites, as they tend to be very volatile entities.] Note: Unless otherwise indicated, "builds" means compiles using SUN-supplied compilers. IMPORTANT: If you have built a tool/utility listed here and you needed to apply one or more patches, PLEASE contact the code's author so that he/she may examine you efforts and incorporate them into the next release. This will help everyone. "HELP SAVE THE WORLD." - Larry Wall. NOTICE: I am trying to establish an effective method to indicate which version of Solaris is required (i.e., 2.0 or 2.1). Presumably some SW will only build/run on later versions of Solaris. At present I have indicated that anything that "works" under 2.0 will work under 2.1 and later versions [when released]. CAVEAT: The listing of a program/product below does NOT mean that I have personally compiled or tested it. The information in this list is supplied to me by users like yourself. I will attempt to keep this list accurate and reasonably up to date, but I depend on YOU to help me do this. If you see something that is incomplete or inaccurate, please try to obtain correct information and then contact me. Status Codes: 1 Current distribution builds under Solaris 2.0 and above. 2 Current distribution builds with patches. [See comments] [Most people who claimed that they we able to get XXX to build with only a "few" patches have generally been optimistic about others ability to do the same. However this is not necessarily the case.] 3 Current distribution doesn't build yet. 4 Partial build. [See comments] 5 Cygnus distribution includes this. See vendor/cygnus dir on ftp.uu.net. 6 Binary available. Binaries have been posted to some sites known by archie and other databases. It is clearly more desirable to have the source build properly, especially for tools that depend on significant selection of options prior to a build. 7 Compiles under 4.x compatibility mode. 8 Current distribution builds under Solaris 2.0 and above using gcc. 9 Current distribution builds with patches using gcc 10 Current distribution builds with Solaris 2.1 Patch distributors: P1 davy@ecn.purdue.edu Comment Codes: Pn Patches available. See patch distributors. 1 Use gcc (cygnus gcc from ftp.uu.net [cygnus-sol2-1.0.bin.tar.Z in ~ftp/vendor/cygnus], or opcom.sun.ca [in ~ftp/pub/Cygnus]) 2 Solaris 2.1 required FTP, email, server sites. REPEAT: Use archie or xarchie to search for SW. F1 gawain.jyu.fi F2 cs.columbia.edu:/pub/amd F3 ftp.eng.umd.edu F4 cs.arizona.edu F5 export.lcs.mit.edu F6 prep.ai.mit.edu F7 harbor.ecn.purdue.edu F8 comp.sources.misc [on ftp.uu.net and others, presumably] F9 bcm.tmc.edu F10 tesla.ee.cornell.edu Product Version Status Comment amd (berkeley) 5.3alpha 2,8 P1, maybe P2. F2 archie 2 P1. Minor BSD/SVRV problems bash 1.12 1,6 1 bison 10 Don't use -lPW byacc 5 cnews/rnews F1 contool 3.3 1 cvs 1.3 1 diff pgms 2.0 1 dig 2.0 2 Minor BSD/SYSV problems dvips 5.47 8 Define SYSV in makefile eispack elm 2.4P21 10 emacs 18.59 6,8 epoch 4.2 1,8 fileutils 3.3 1 1 flex 5 ftptool 4.5 10 gawk gcc 2.2.2 5,6 gcc 2.3.2 1 2 gcc 2.3.3 10 F6 [binaries] gdb 4.6 5 ghostscript 2.5.2 1,8 ghostview 1.4 1,8 gopher gprof 5 grep gtar 1 Use Sun ANSI C w/ -Xc -lsocket gzip 1.0.6 6,8 binaries on F6 as gzip-solaris-1.0.6.tar icon 8.7 9,6 F4 INN jove 4.14.7 2 P1 kermit 3 Wait for Solaris 2.1 lapack less 177 8 [replace -lPW with -lform] linpack log_tcp 5.0 8 make 3.62.16+ 1 Metafont 2.7 8 MH 6.8 1 MicroEmacs 3.11a 8 Mtools nfswatch 4.0 10 F7 [in pub/davy] nihcl nn 1 Get s-sunos5.h file NNTP patch 2.0.12.u8 5,8 perl 4.0p35 1 Don't use optimizer on util.c, tutil.c pine ping (post BSD) 1 pidentd 2.1 beta.11 10 POP PPP rc 1.4 1 rcs 1 rn F1 scan 1 shellutils 1.7 1 1 slip 2.1 (host) 6 F9 SR (prog lang) 2.1 8 F4 tar 1.10 1 1 tcl tcpdump tcsh 1 F10 good cfg file TeX/LaTeX 3.14 8 textutils 1.4 1 1 tgrind top traceroute 2.0 2 P1 trn 2.4 10 WAIS webster (client) 2 P1 xntp (net time protocol) X11R4 X11R5 p1 17 2,4 clients & libs only. No server. P1 Also, site F3 [pub/sparc/x11r5-solaris-bin.tar.Z] [Also, try R5.Xsun.multi-screen.tar.Z in F5 contrib dir. And see note 2 below.] x3270 (IBM 3270 emulator) 1.2 1 ============================================================================== Note 1: I managed to get NNTP RN 4.4.3 to compile, after much work. This also means I got the library parts of CNEWS and NNTP to compile. I don't really have any patches (and they'd be hard to make), but will answer questions for people trying to do it themselves. CNEWS and NNTP aren't too bad. RN 4.4.3 is in bad shape, mostly because the "Configure" script suffers from serious brain damage. [From Dave Curry ] 1/14/93 Note 2: The status of X11R5 has changed. [Message from John DiMarco] Caspar Dik and myself have put together a comprehensive patch kit for mit X11R5 pl 19 or greater, supporting both the default MIT code and the Xsun multi-screen server enhancement by Kaleb Keithley. A GX .o file in ELF format is also included. Patches for Xview3 and Olit are included. The patch kit is available on export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib and ra.mcs.anl.gov:/sun-managers as R5.SunOS5.patch.tar.Z Feel free to contact either myself (jdd@cdf.toronto.edu) or Caspar (caspar@fwi.uva.nl) if you need more information. There are now patches available on export.lcs.mit.edu that make X11R5 (pl 19-22) run on Solaris 2.1. These patches are a a combination of patches previously avialble via ftp or usenet and new code. The patches support MIT R5 pl 19-22 and the R5 multi-screen patch with that MIT R5 pl 19-22. The patch is called ``R5.SunOS5.patch.tar.Z'' and includes support for xview 3.2. Olvwm will build with that release after including -lm on the link command line. The minimum requirements are gcc 2.3.3 (first version that properly supports PIC on Solaris 2.x. Tested on Solaris 2.1 with adapters cgthree/bwtwo/cgsix. Includes sunGX.o.elf (ELF code that uses the GX adapter). See the README for the contributors. ============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Various contributed X11 clients [R4.18 and/or R5.patch_level] ImageMagick 2.3.1 1 olvwm3 10 [get patches] pbmplus xarchie 1.3 1 xdbx xdvi patch15 2 needs bzero and bcopy .o files. xfig 2.1.4 2 Minor BSD/SYSV problems xli xlock Incl with 2.x OW xperfmon xpipeman X11R5 contrib 2,7 xpostit 3.1 2 xrn 6.17 2 xtetris X11R5 contrib 2 Minor stuff xtroff X11R5 contrib 1 xv 2.21 2,7,8 xview 3.0.1 xvnews 2.1p14 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SW from SUN that runs under Solaris 2.0 and/or 2.1. [Note: It will be *impossible* to make this a complete list. I will try to include the most "popular" software. ] IMPORTANT: It is getting to be difficult to keep track of the exact version numbers of SUN products that are available under Solaris 2.0 and/or 2.1. I am making a reasonable attempt to present information I receive from SUN and from readers of comp.unix.solaris. Sometimes I have listed only the latest version number that is claimed to be available. PLEASE contact SUN directly if your are uncertain as to what to order. "Not yet" means that it is coming sooner or later this year and a beta release may be available for early access developers. Answerbook 2.0 Y [Solaris 2.0] Answerbook 2.1 Y [Solaris 2.1] cc 2.0.1 Y CC (c++) 3.0.1 Y Developers Guide 3.0.1 Y fortran 2.0.1 Y FDDI/S 2.0 Y SBUS FDDI card software Pascal 2.0.1 Y NewsPrint 2.5 Y Shipping 4/12/93 (Finally!) Online: Backup 2.0 Y Online: DiskSuite Not yet SHIELD Y [2.1] C2 security addendum ShowMe 1.0 Not Yet SPARCworks tools 2.0.1 Y SPARCworks Dev Env 2.0 Y SPARCworks Dev Env 2.0.1 Y SPC/S 2.0 (Ser para ctrl) Y [2.1] access 8 serial + 1 parallel port Sunlink FDDI Not Yet Sunlink CG3270 Y Sunlink X25 8.0 Y SunNet Manager Not Yet SUN PC Not Yet TEAMWARE 1.0 Y XGL 3.0 Y ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The list of "Other Commercial" is definitely going to be incomplete. I will try to include the more popular 3rd party software products. If a "?" appears, it means I have no information as to whether this product runs under Solaris 2.x. Feel free to contact the vendor and relay any information back to me. Other Commercial: Runs under Solaris 2.x (Y/N/?) Adobe Transcript 3.1 Need to build from source AFS Alsys Ada Y Asterix AUTOCAD Rel 12 Y AUTOxxx (other Autodesk prods) Y Aviator BRS-Search Y Codeview/Objectview Disspla Empress FrameMaker 3.1.2 Y FourGen accounting Y Galaxy Application Enviornment In beta Solaris 2.1 GNP DEI Serial Expander Y 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 IDE (Software thru Pictures) Y ie (X11 text editor) Y IMSL Informix Y (SE and RDS and OnLine) Ingres Y Interleaf 5 Island WPD Y Island Presents Y Liken 1.3 Y Looking Glass In beta Solaris 2.1 Looking Glass Advantage In beta Solaris 2.1 Lotus 123 OpenLook April 1993 lucid 19.6 (emacs) Y Maple V Rel 2 Y 2.0 only. 2.1 in prog. Mathematica Matlab (in Beta, 4/93) Miranda (programming lang) N (Soon. 4/93) Motif (1.2.1 from ICS) Y Sol 2.1 NCAR graphics (3.2) Nexpert 3 N (Approx 1 month. 4/93) Oracle Y ParcPlace Smalltalk 4.1a due 1st qtr 93 PV-WAVE N July, 1993 QMS/Imagen printer SW RSX SDRC Y SENTINEL Debugging Environment Y S-PLUS (statistics package) N (several weeks. 4/93) Stata (Statistical package) Y (Compatability mode?) Sybase SQL Server (System 10) 3Q 93 Sybase Open Server (System 10) 3Q 93 Sybase Open Client (System 10) 3Q 93 Tivoli Management Environment Y Topic Transarc DCE (1.0.1) Developer's Kit N Transarc DCE (1.0.2) Core Product 2Q 93 Transarc DCE (1.0.3) Full Product 4Q 93 Tuxedo UIM/X WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) Y 2.1 WDSF (Workstation DataSave Facility) [Binary comp mode] Word Perfect N TMI Parallel Driver XESS (Spreadsheet) Y 2.1 Xmath ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Final notes: Cygnus offers commercial support for much of the GNU software. Their phone number is: 415 903 1400. Cygnus info is available via email: info@cygnus.com Their address is: 1937 Landings drive, Mountain View, CA 94043 [I am not a Cygnus employee.]