Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!samsung!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Typescript under SunOS 4.1? Message-ID: <3974@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 28 Aug 90 20:11:48 GMT References: <1990Aug27.152610.8290@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 24 >With me typescript shows the same behaviour. My workstation is running >under SunOS 4.1 whereas the binaries have been compiled under SunOS 4.0.3. >When I run the same binaries on another workstation which still runs 4.0.3 >everything is ok. Funny, isn't it ? Not entirely unexpected - SunOS 4.1's job control and tty mechanisms have been POSIXized, and stuff that may work under earlier releases to set up ttys may not work quite the same in 4.1. >Since all the binaries of X11 and Andrew have been compiled under SunOS 4.0.3 >the only difference could probably be /usr/lib/libc which has changed >from V1.3 to V1.5. No, actually, there's another "library", if you will, that changed, namely "/vmunix", and... > One could link V1.3 statically into runapp then. ...you can't statically link "/vmunix" into "runapp". (I.e., the semantics of some system calls may have changed.) Not having 4.1 nor its documentation handy at this moment, I can't investigate further, but check whether the release notes or change notes or something such as that discusses this.