[Gcl-devel] OpenBSD and GCL

[Mike Thomas]

Hi Camm.

Just a note to let you know that last night I was possessed of the need to
procrastinate by installing OpenBSD 3.4 and hand tweaking ppp, chat and KDE
all from some CD's I found on a magazine cover, grab CVS head GCL and
compile it.

In short GCL doesn't compile out of the box on OpenBSD and OpenBSD seems to
be quite a nice lightweight Unix install, although you don't get the
installation automation that Linux and Windows users have come to expect.

By one am I still had not got it through the mill but I hope to try again
later in the week.  When I succeed I'll put a readme into CVS (things like
the standard OpenBSD make is not GNU make and can't deal with the -include
statement etc).

I'm hoping this will give me a benchmark for bug comparisons with Windows
and will also broaden our in-house testing base, although at this point I am
not inclined to get into making binary distributions for OpenBSD due to lack
of time.

Cheers

Mike Thomas.