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Date:20 Apr 2004 20:36:09 +1000 
Subject:Re: Source tree for debian build (Was Re: Status of OpenPoplog) 
From:john duncan 
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bfulg@pacbell.net writes:

> --- Aaron Sloman <A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > John Duncan (somewhere in Australia) was working on
> > this last July, but I don't know what the end
 product
> > was and whether he ever made it generally
> accessible.
> 
> I have not seen anything, though if he's lurking
> maybe he can report in.
>  

Hi Brent,
        No I didn't try to create Debian packages, this turned out to be
something that requires a lot of Debian specific knowledge.
        The latest tarball from Birmingham installs well on Debain
stable without termcap-compat package as you probably know.
        There was a problem on FreeBSD where Poplog would hang on exit
when run from Gnome-Terminal in Gnome 2.4. I have never run Gnome 2.4 on
Debian so I don't know if this a problem with Gnome or a problem with
the Linux ABI on FreeBSD.
        Soon I will try to get Poplog to run on OpenBSD which has just
gone to ELF format and has a facility now called elf2olf which can brand
Linux binaries. I am wondering if the stack protection technology on
OpenBSD will object to an open stack language, though I suppose
Ghostscript must be similar.

                                  All the best,
                                      John Duncan