Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:27:06 +0100

Hello everyone,

trying to resolve the situation with an outdated C++ compiler crashing

on the EPICS sources, I found out that BESSY doesn't seem to be able to

support testing Base on HP-UX any longer.

We are in the middle of converting to Linux, the software on our few

remaining HP-UX machines has been in frozen state for a while, so asking

for an update of a compiler to test a software that is not going to be

used on that platform

... sounds a lot like asking someone to waste time to be able to waste

more time.

I know we intended to keep HP-UX supported for 3.14 and I know there are

others still using HP machines, so I'm not feeling too happy with this

issue. In any case I would like to keep the HP-UX configuration files

around for a little longer.

Well, I'm throwing the ball high up in the air and start running ....

maybe one of the KEK colleagues (the only remaining HP users as far as I

know) is able to catch it?!

I'm definitely willing to continue helping with ideas and suggestions,

if someone takes over. No question. But without a current system and

compiler I'm not able to compile nor test.

Sorry -
Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System