The need for the Clean sources

Jose Romildo Malaquias romildo@urano.iceb.ufop.br
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:52:23 -0300


On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 03:17:58PM +0200, Pieter Koopman wrote:
> At 14:40 20/09/99 +0200, Pedro Palao Gostanza wrote:
> >Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> >> I need the Clean compilation system working in a RedHat Linux 6.0 machine
> >> (glibc 2.1, egcs 1.1.2). The Linux binaries provided at the Clean site
> >> does not work on this system. So I would like to be able to compile the
> >> Clean system myself, but I do not have access to the source code. It
> >> would be nice if at least the Clean team make a new binary distribution
> >> of Clean for this platform, as it seems we will not have the chance
> >> to it ourselves.
> >
> >I am waiting for this too; i would like to upgrade to RedHat 6.0.
> >Remember that a lot of Linux systems use RedHat distrubution; 
> >the failure of Clean
> >to run on these machines (even executables created in a RedHat 5.2 don't
> >work in RedHat 6.0) cuts a lot of potential new users (at least my
> >students).
> 
> John van Groningen is working on this. Should be available within 2 weeks.

It would be nice to have Clean packaged in RPM format. Would it be possible?
-- 
José Romildo Malaquias <romildo@iceb.ufop.br>
Departamento de Computação
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Brasil