16 Mar
2025
16 Mar
'25
10:36 p.m.
Hello all , Here I am again , Maybe my ? might be relative to the
community .
I grabbed an archive of precompiled gnu software , During the
extraction I got a 'warning' from a gzip'd tar & decided to dig into
the
underlying tarball to see if it was trully corrupted or repairable .
Tada , I did a silly and less'd one of the binary files and noticed
that the underlying file was 'ar'd by /usr/local/alphaev6-dec-osf5.1b/bin/ar ,
well all said and done My ol' as100 ain't a ev6 .
So my Question , Could I use these programs that were created on a ev6 cpu
system on my ev4 ?
Tia , JimL
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16 Mar
16 Mar
11:08 p.m.
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 18:47, babydr DBA James W. Laferriere <
babydr(a)baby-dragons.com> wrote:
Hello all , Here I am again , Maybe my ?
might be relative to
the
community .
I grabbed an archive of precompiled gnu software , During the
extraction I got a 'warning' from a gzip'd tar & decided to dig into
the
underlying tarball to see if it was trully corrupted or repairable .
Tada , I did a silly and less'd one of the binary files and
noticed
that the underlying file was 'ar'd by
/usr/local/alphaev6-dec-osf5.1b/bin/ar ,
well all said and done My ol' as100 ain't a ev6 .
So my Question , Could I use these programs that were created on a ev6
cpu
system on my ev4 ?
Under Tru64 any program compiled for any Alpha CPU will run on any other,
but there will be emulation overhead when executing instructions that your
CPU doesn't have. On a much slower machine this could be pretty painful.
Not sure what you mean by an AS100 - do you have an AS1000? Or an AS200
4/100?
-Henry
11:24 p.m.
Hello Henry ,
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, Henry Bent wrote:
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 18:47, babydr DBA James W.
Laferriere <
babydr(a)baby-dragons.com> wrote:
Yes , AS200 4/100 , Painful I don't need , But it's better than
attempting to find the right combinations of shareable libraries & compiler
flags are required to cleanly compile most of the gnu stuff .
And yes I have been trying mostly unsuccessfully to compile some of the
tools/utilities I have grown accustomed to on the linux platforms . Tho I am
not a fan of rpm . So ... Off I go again .
Tia , JimL
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| James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS |
| Network & System Engineer | 3237 Holden Road | Give me Linux |
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Hello all , Here I am again , Maybe my
? might be relative to
the
community .
I grabbed an archive of precompiled gnu software , During the
extraction I got a 'warning' from a gzip'd tar & decided to dig into
the
underlying tarball to see if it was trully corrupted or repairable .
Tada , I did a silly and less'd one of the binary files and
noticed
that the underlying file was 'ar'd by
/usr/local/alphaev6-dec-osf5.1b/bin/ar ,
well all said and done My ol' as100 ain't a ev6 .
So my Question , Could I use these programs that were created on a ev6
cpu
system on my ev4 ?
Under Tru64 any program compiled for any Alpha CPU will run on any other,
but there will be emulation overhead when executing instructions that your
CPU doesn't have. On a much slower machine this could be pretty painful.
Not sure what you mean by an AS100 - do you have an AS1000? Or an AS200
4/100?
-Henry
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