Re: [Fwd: EPICS Base @ HP-UX: Volunteers wanted]

[Ralph Lange <Ralph.Lange@bessy.de>]

Hi Billy,

no one intends to change the old versions - that's for sure. Calm your 
breath.

All 3.12 and 3.13 versions should run on all HP-UX machines. Forever. 
Until the machines die. Or even longer.

With 3.14 (and its introduction of threads) things became less simple. 
For the multithreading capabilities of EPICS 3.14 you need posix 
threads, which were introduced with HP-UX 11, and the new C++ compiler 
that came with it.
All versions up to 3.14.8.2 are working on HP-UX 11.0 (and the 
corresponding C++ compiler) - see  BASE/documentation/README.hpux for 
details.
3.14.9 will not compile with the HP-UX 11.0 compiler (aC++ version 3). 
On newer HP-UX 11.23 machines there's a new compiler (aC++ version 6), 
which might work, but BESSY doesn't have such a machine, nor that 
compiler, nor any intention to get one.

Cheers - and good luck with your historical machines ;-)
Ralph


Billy Adams wrote:
> Kazuro,
>
>     We still have four HP-UX EPICS computers left at NASA-Langley 
> Research Center running EPICS R3.12.2.  There are no plans to upgrade 
> one of them. We will continue to need this one!
>     I am in the process of upgrading three of them to newer Fedora 
> Core 6 Linux computers running EPICS R3.14.8.2.  However, at least 
> temporarily, we will need to keep EPICS R3.12.2 on at least one of the 
> three HP-UX computers for IOC software development.
>
> Billy R. Adams
> Raytheon
> NASA-Langley Research Center
> 757-864-5934