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From: ke...@seismo.CSS.GOV (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Request for user-contributed software
Keywords: 4BSD, user-contributed
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Date: 22 Jul 88 16:50:36 GMT
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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BSD will be starting a new cycle of software development this summer. As
most of you know, much of the software made available through Berkeley was
contributed by the user community. We wish to continue this tradition and
encourage anyone who is interested in contributing software to the user
community to contact us. We also have many projects, ranging in difficulty
from weekend hacks to master's or doctorate level work, that we do not have
time to do ourselves.
Possible projects include:
autodialer manager/daemon
biff(1) replacement (mail notification)
conferencing system
csh cleanups and the addition of ksh features, particularly
functions and command line editing
System V compatible cron(8) and at(1) programs
documentation browsing system
multi-buffered tape driver
multiuser, message-based application scheduler
public-domain NFS
replacement of current various current utilities with
public domain source code
make(1) replacement
We would appreciate being contacted by anyone interested working on these,
or any other, projects.
Keith Bostic
415-642-4948
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bos...@okeeffe.berkeley.edu
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From: bos...@OKEEFFE.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tahoe
Subject: gcc for the tahoe
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Date: 2 Aug 88 17:13:00 GMT
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One of the things that we're investigating, as part of the next Berkeley
release, is the replacement of our current compiler with the GNU compiler,
gcc. If anybody would be interested in participating in this effort,
either as an implementor or a debugger, please contact me by email at
bos...@okeeffe.berkeley.edu. Also, if anyone's organization would be
willing to help fund this work, we'd be very interested in hearing from
you.
--keith
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From: mwi...@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tahoe
Subject: GCC & G++
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Date: 10 Mar 89 17:27:24 GMT
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Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.1 of Thu Oct 15 1987 on x102a (hcx/ux)
Has anyone brought up GNU C (GCC) and/or G++ on the tahoe?
We're doing extensive C, Ada, and GNU lisp work on a Harris HCX-9 and
I would like to know of others who are similarly involved!!! Please
respond to this posting or via email or phone (407-729-3283).
--
- Scott Wills
mwi...@x102a.harris-atd.com
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From: bos...@OKEEFFE.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tahoe
Subject: GCC & G++
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Date: 10 Mar 89 20:08:44 GMT
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> Has anyone brought up GNU C (GCC) and/or G++ on the tahoe?
Devon Bowen and some people at The University of New York at Buffalo
have GCC running on the tahoe. His address is "bo...@cs.buffalo.edu".
--keith
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From: g...@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Porting Franz Lisp to run under Gnu C
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Date: 31 May 89 20:40:08 GMT
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I have been working on making the whole BSD Unix system compile under
gcc (the GNU C compiler). UCB intends to use gcc as "cc" in future BSD
releases, though the old pcc compiler will still be around somewhere.
One big stumbling block is Franz Lisp, which is rife with machine- and
compiler-dependencies. Rather than replace these fragile dependencies
with different fragile dependencies, I have been removing them, making
the code more portable.
After a few days' work, I have the Lisp interpreter compiling with gcc
and pcc (and presumably any other C compiler). There are a few loose
ends to smooth out but it's basically there. However, the Lisp
compiler is another matter; it seems to have lots more buried
assumptions about how various C language "global variables" (the stack
pointers) have magically been put into global machine registers.
It looks like this is turning into a bigger effort than I and Berkeley
can support. Two questions: Does anyone care if Franz Lisp moves into
/usr/old and is desupported in BSD releases? And, is there anyone who
wants to take on the Lisp compiler conversion themselves?
--
John Gilmore {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu g...@toad.com
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