Officially changing my most-hated UNIX flavor.

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

Up until recently it was HP-UX, because I had some messy issues porting 
an app from HP-UX 10 to a more modern version.  They changed every object 
size under the sun in preparation for 64-bitness and a newer curses 
standard and IPv6, even though that newer HP-UX didn't itself have the 
64-bitness or IPv6.

As you know, I'm porting an application on AIX from the native xlC copiler
to gcc/binutils now.  After cleaning the blood off my monitor (it's right
near the wall I've been banging my head against), I saw a coworker sent me 
these links:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=right&th=ab1b3d331e2c8d7&seekm=3f28d542%240%244824%2480265adb%40spool.cs.wisc.edu#link1

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/gnu.html

For added fun, nobody anywhere on the 'net has a precompiled version of
gcc later than 3.3.3 (and that's for AIX 5.1, not 5.2), and there are no
recent binutils to be found either (for 5.2).  I've found a few links to
later versions, but they have either been 404 or corupted archives.  IBM
offers gcc on their website, but its... wait for it... gcc 2.9.5 as the
most recent for AIX 5.2, and I have to install a bastardized version of
RPM to get that.  Rolling my own has been a challenge.

Maybe unemployment wasn't so bad...  I guess as long as I'm making more 
money than the therapy will cost later...

-- 
DDDD   And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad- The dreams in 
DK KD  which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.  I find it hard to
DKK D  tell you 'cos I find it hard to take.  When people run in
DK KD  circles it's a very, very Mad World
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