> I have finally got round to finishing writing an application on the Sun
> Os platform. If I wished to port it to IRIX 5.3, is it a case of
> re-compilation or re-design ?
That depends.
If you're using SunOS or SPARC specific features then you're going to
have problems. Otherwise, it should be a simple matter of rebuilding
the application.
Most applications I write using XForms run on IRIX 5.3, IRIX 6.2, and
SunOS 4.1.[34] with little or no difficulty in porting.
In porting X applications one of the most valuable tools you have at
your disposal is imake. I realize that imake is a little rococo
(perhaps Byzantine?) but once you learn it then porting between
operating systems becomes as simple as doing
xmkmf -a
make
There's an excellent book in the O'Reilly series called _Software
Portability with imake_ (ISBN 1-56592-055-4) that is well worth the
cover price. It will teach you all you need to know to successfully
use imake to port applications to any number of bizarre platforms.
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Please, oh, please, oh, please, folks -- lay off the base64 stuff. If
you need to send some binary gorp, use uuencode.
spl
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