I do not have solaris 8 on my Ultra 10, so there is no way for me to
check and see if the HttpTunnel4VNC lisp (port)forwarder(version 1.5)
works on that O.S. I have tried to use it on Solaris 9 with the
binaries that I downloaded from CMUCL. I feared the worst when I saw
that there where no binaries for Solaris 9 only Solaris 8 and lower.
I can get lisp to pop-up with it's version and I can get the
HttpTunnel4VNC lisp forwarder to start up, but I cannot get it to work
- when I try to connect to the VNC server through the lisp
(port)forwader the program crapps out with an error. Can anyone point
me to a tutorial on compiling CMU Common Lisp. The web site said it
may be very dificult, but I'd be willing to try.
Or
Has anyone else used the Solaris 8 binaries on Solaris 9 and had it
work flawlessly? Because if that is the case, I will try and correct
my lisp error.
or
Does anyone know of an implementation of lisp that does work on
Solaris 9?
Thanks to all who read this, and special thanks to any who reply.
From: Helmut Eller
Subject: Re: CMUCL on Solaris 9 - anyone else tried it?
Date:
Message-ID: <m2smia4zki.fsf@62.178.77.205>
··············@sylvania.com (Hank) writes:
> I do not have solaris 8 on my Ultra 10, so there is no way for me to
> check and see if the HttpTunnel4VNC lisp (port)forwarder(version 1.5)
> works on that O.S. I have tried to use it on Solaris 9 with the
> binaries that I downloaded from CMUCL.
HttpTunnel4VNC doesn't work on Solaris. It requires a CMUCL with
multithreading and this is only available for x86. HttpTunnel4VNC is
also very CMUCL specific, so you can't use another Lisp
implementation. Sorry.
You can try the Java version of HttpTunnel4VNC, but it has fewer
features and is more buggy than the Lips version.
Helmut.
From: Tim Bradshaw
Subject: Re: CMUCL on Solaris 9 - anyone else tried it?
Date:
Message-ID: <ey3wu7m4wsf.fsf@cley.com>
* Hank wrote:
> Does anyone know of an implementation of lisp that does work on
> Solaris 9?
I'd be fairly surprised if sol8 binaries don't run on 9 in general:
Sun are fairly good about compatibility. We run binaries built on
5.5.1 on 7, 8 and 9.
--tim
··············@sylvania.com (Hank) writes:
> I do not have solaris 8 on my Ultra 10, so there is no way for me to
> check and see if the HttpTunnel4VNC lisp (port)forwarder(version 1.5)
> works on that O.S. I have tried to use it on Solaris 9 with the
> binaries that I downloaded from CMUCL. I feared the worst when I saw
> that there where no binaries for Solaris 9 only Solaris 8 and lower.
> I can get lisp to pop-up with it's version and I can get the
> HttpTunnel4VNC lisp forwarder to start up, but I cannot get it to work
> - when I try to connect to the VNC server through the lisp
> (port)forwader the program crapps out with an error. Can anyone point
> me to a tutorial on compiling CMU Common Lisp. The web site said it
> may be very dificult, but I'd be willing to try.
>
> Or
>
> Has anyone else used the Solaris 8 binaries on Solaris 9 and had it
> work flawlessly? Because if that is the case, I will try and correct
> my lisp error.
I use CMU on Solaris 9, and didn't notice any problems so far.
When I try to run this forwarder, CMU enters the debugger on the first
connection attempt because it uses mp:make-process, which isn't
defined. AFAIK the multiprocessing stuff is only available in x86
versions of CMUCL.
Thank you both, that saves me a great deal of my sanity. I have been
using the java version of the forwarder on the Ultra 10. I noticed a
huge difference in performance when I switch my server computer from a
x86 Slackware machine running the lisp forwarder to the solaris 9 java
forwarder. I was just hoping to get some performance back. Oh well,
can't win them all. It is good to know that cmucl does work on Sol 9
though.
Than you both again.