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Re: 20011018: Prob. building ldm5.1.4 on Tru64

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  • Subject: Re: 20011018: Prob. building ldm5.1.4 on Tru64
  • Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:51:05 -0600
"Neil R. Smith" wrote:
> 
> Thanks Anne. I do notice that the unidata supported platforms
> page:
>         http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/platforms.html
> states for DEC Alpha: DU / 5.0+
> My understanding of Tru64 and DU relationship is that Tru64
> is just another name change for the Alpha Unix OS, mainly
> this following Digital's purchase by Compaq. To my knowledge,
> DU (Digital Unix) officially stopped at version 4.x, and many
> DEC oldtimers tend to call Tru64 v5.x DU 5.x. Thus I assumed
> the supported platforms web page was doing same.
> 
> BTW, I sent off a duplicate of my original request without
> noticing I'd got this response from you. Support may ingnore
> it, and I thank you big time for your help. -Neil
> 
> -Neil
> 

Neil,

You're right about the naming.  OSF 5.x = DU 5.x = Tru64.  I stand
corrected - we do indeed have a Tru64, and so we do support it.  My
apologies for the misinformation.  

In your previous message you said: 

> PS: the DU 4.0 binary distribution ldmadmin coredumps with memory
> fault, so it didn't appear to be an alternative. I didn't find
> a Tru64 binary distribution ... is there one?

Was this the ldm v5.1.2 binary distribution that dumped core?  We built
that on a 4.x machine, and I don't know about the compatibility.  And,
ldmadmin is a Perl script that calls ldm programs, so I wonder what
actually crashed.  If you do a 'file' on the core file you find out
which it was.

How is your build going?

Anne

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