Anybody home?

[John Kelly]

I'm new to SFU, recently installing 3.5 on XP. After learning my way
around, I have it working well now. The disk access is not as fast as
linux, but if you can live with that, it's useful for development and
testing, not to mention having UNIX command line tools on your Windows
filesystem.

Looks like there's not much activity in this group though. That's too
bad. SFU/SUA seems like a good tool.

[Marc D. Williams]

Post by John Kelly
I'm new to SFU, recently installing 3.5 on XP. After learning my way
around, I have it working well now. The disk access is not as fast as
linux, but if you can live with that, it's useful for development and
testing, not to mention having UNIX command line tools on your Windows
filesystem.
Looks like there's not much activity in this group though. That's too
bad. SFU/SUA seems like a good tool.

I suppose most activity is on the forums at suacommunity.com

After a long absence I just recently re-installed SFU on this
XP machine. This way I always have my familiar command line in
between *nix sessions.
Got a few issues with GCC at the moment but otherwise things
are working well.

[John Kelly]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:55:50 -0700, "Marc D. Williams"

Post by Marc D. Williams

Post by John Kelly
I'm new to SFU, recently installing 3.5 on XP. After learning my way
around, I have it working well now. The disk access is not as fast as
linux, but if you can live with that, it's useful for development and
testing, not to mention having UNIX command line tools on your Windows
filesystem.
Looks like there's not much activity in this group though. That's too
bad. SFU/SUA seems like a good tool.

I suppose most activity is on the forums at suacommunity.com

I prefer NNTP.

Post by Marc D. Williams
After a long absence I just recently re-installed SFU on this
XP machine. This way I always have my familiar command line in
between *nix sessions.
Got a few issues with GCC at the moment but otherwise things
are working well.

I tried installing the suacommunity packages and ended up with a broken
system; env would not set any environment variables. So I reinstalled a
vanilla SFU, plus hotfixes, and now env is working fine.

I got some of the debian-interix patches and started building packages
by hand. So far, I have these installed and working:

autoconf
automake
bash
cvs
gettext
glib
groff
less
libtool
m4
make
mc
ncurses
openssh
openssl
patch
pcre
perl
pkg-config
rsync
wget
zlib

I renamed my XP administrator account to root, fixed /etc/inetd.conf
to start rlogin, and configured .rhosts and Putty for rlogin without a
password. I just click an icon and I'm root. Putty with the Terminal
10-point font looks good.

[Marc D. Williams]

Post by John Kelly

Post by Marc D. Williams
I suppose most activity is on the forums at suacommunity.com

I prefer NNTP.

So do I. Sadly it's all fading, albeit slowly.

Post by John Kelly
I tried installing the suacommunity packages and ended up with a broken
system; env would not set any environment variables. So I reinstalled a
vanilla SFU, plus hotfixes, and now env is working fine.

My system is also broken somehow. For some reason I do not have or
can't create crt0 which causes problems. Can't even run "configure"
as it fails at the point where crt0 is needed. It's nowhere to be
found anywhere.
I installed SFU and then one of the big suacommunity packages.
I've been meaning to start from scratch and your post gives me
an idea of what route to take.

Post by John Kelly
I got some of the debian-interix patches and started building packages
by hand.

Could you give me some pointers on the location of the hotfixes?
I knew they were out there but wasn't sure where.
I figure next week I'll start again and see where things go.
My time is divided between two XPs, Win2K, Linux, NetBSD, and
OpenSolaris plus fixing co-workers machines (takes forever when
they haven't patched Windows in over six months).
I've been playing the SFU "I'll get around to it" game for a few
weeks now.

I kind of like the XP admin to root idea. Pretty good.

Marc

[John Kelly]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:51:32 -0700, "Marc D. Williams"

Post by Marc D. Williams
Could you give me some pointers on the location of the hotfixes?

The debian-interix site will show you the Microsoft links to get them,
but the procedure requires an emailed link from Microsoft for each one.
It's a major hassle.

I put them up for download here:

ftp://ftp.beewyz.com/users/jar/etcetera/computer/system/sfu35/sfu35fix/

I applied them to my system in numeric order.

Post by Marc D. Williams
I've been playing the SFU "I'll get around to it" game for a few
weeks now.

I have a patch/build environment to get upstream tarballs installed on
Interix. I call it the hack artisan, it's easy to use. It's on the FTP
site, in another directory.

I don't have my Interix build scripts and the source tarballs uploaded
yet, but if you want to try them, let me know.