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Date:Mon Sep 22 22:19:36 2000 
Subject:Re: Poplog for alpha linux (Was Re: unpacking poplog rpm) 
From:Hartmann Schaffer 
Volume-ID:1000923.02 

In article <8qgqj4$1t6$1@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>,
Aaron Sloman See text for reply address <Aaron.Sloman.XX@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> ...
>Poplog has been run on linux alpha, which I believe was used by John
>Gibson to fix linux poplog, shortly  before he retired.

any possibility to contact him?

>Unfortunately I don't have access to a set of binaries, though all
>the sources for both alpha+digital unix and alpha+linux are included
>(as far as I know) in the pop/src directory in the alpha-unix poplog
>system available from here:
>
>    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/new/alphaunix-15.53.tar.gz
>or
>    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/new/alphaunix-15.53.tar.gz
>
>That file is about 15.8 Mbytes in size.
>
>If you have an alpha plus digital unix you could fetch and install

unfortunately, i don't, and i have no access to one, either

>that version of alpha poplog and use it to generate a linux alpha
>version. (It involves using the special tools provided to create
>a large number of assembler files which then get copied across,
>assembled on the new machine and linked).

what are the difficulties building it with the intel version (even
using em86)?  any obstacles (like 32 vs 64 bit machines)?

> ...I have never done this, but some other readers of comp.lang.pop have
>done similar things, and may be able to provide help or advice if
>you get stuck.
>>Porting instructions (far from perfect) are in the files in
>
>    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/sysdoc/
>
>also available packaged in this file:
>    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/sysdoc.tar.gz
>or
>    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/sysdoc.tar.gz
>        Just over 70 Kbytes
>You might wish to fetch that and read the stuff in it before
>deciding whether you wish to have a go.

unfortunately, all 3 urls return "file not foundon this server"

hs