Subject: Re: Status of multicast tools under NetBSD?
To: None <abochann@cisco.com>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/05/1996 11:47:33
> What's the current status of multicasting tools under NetBSD?  I am
> particularly concerned about sd, vat, nv, and vic.

Some older binaries are available from ftp://elroy.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/ ...
Check the files MBONE.netbsd_sparc.tar.gz and MBONE.netbsd_sparc.CKSUM.

It contains
sd-1.14
imm-3.3
ivs3.3m3
nv-3.3beta
vat-3.4
wb-1.59
vic-2.6
libMagick.so.3.4
libXpm.so.4.3

and

SunOS_libX11.so.4.10_for_vat+sd+wb

(These are about a year and a half old, btw.)

Current status: vic from 2.6 on compiles out of the box.  Now there's the new
alpha releases of "vat" and friends; I haven't tried to compile these yet for
the simple reason that they require Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0, and I've had problems
trying to get those to build on my NetBSD/SPARC 1.0 system.  I've not had
time to look into it further, and have basically punted until such time as I
can get 1.1 or -current loaded on my work SPARCstation 2.

The "sd", "vat" and "wb" binaries in the above are the SunOS binaries,
slightly whacked to overcome an ioctl() problem in NetBSD 1.0 (which has since
been addressed by pk, so they don't need whacking anymore).

> Also, has anyone written a Sun VideoPix driver?

Not that I know of.

	- Greg