[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Scott Dorsey]

John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <v0lm82$2gs$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
>Dorsey) wrote:
>
>> Yes!  And the odds are that if I got your binary distribution I 
>> could probably make it run fine on Slackware (without systemd) 
>> after spending an afternoon or two playing with libraries and 
>> moving files around. Because Linux distributions don't vary 
>> THAT much.
>> 
>> But, were I to do that, if I called you for support on your 
>> software and explained I was running it on Slackware, the odds 
>> are that the first thing you would do would be to tell me to 
>> move it to a supported RH system.
>
>I can do better than that. Assuming Distrowatch's page on Slackware is
>accurate, I can tell you that it should run on Slackware 15.0 or later
>and definitely won't run on 14.2 or earlier. That much, I can get from
>the glibc and gcc versions. 
>
>If it won't run for you on 15.0 or later, then I'll ask you to try a RHEL
>work-alike, to eliminate the possibility that it's something about your
>local setup. 
>
>If it works on Rocky and not on Slackware 15.0, then I'll start asking
>more detailed questions and getting a Slackware VM set up. 

All I can say is that you're a lot more helpful toward customers than the
folks at Mathworks are.... and I suspect you are linking in a lot fewer
libraries than their bloated code does.
--scott

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