On Friday 06 August 2004 23:57, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Just took a look at the source for CA Ingres3. While they call it
> open source, it will take some work to build on anything other than
> linux. They use jam as the build tool, which needs a lot of esoteric
> information about a platform. The source is probably chock full of
> linuxisms. Needs kerberosV.
>
> Also needs a CA version of pax to run Ingres. There is a linux
> binary, but no source.

Actually, Jam works quite well on NetBSD, I use it all the time. I'm not 
quite sure what you mean about jam needing "a lot of esoteric 
information about a platform."

Or do you mean build rules? Those would be different for each package, 
much like makefiles are, and would of course probably need to be 
modified to get ingres3 working on NetBSD. (Assuming that any linuxisms 
aren't too onerous to strip out, or rewrite in the source itself.)