Re: HP-UX support and portability

[Rick Jones via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Rick Jones <jonesrick () google com>
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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:07:42 -0700
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> If https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#Version_history is any indication,
> there are ~21 months left on HP's (er, sorry, HPE's) own support for HP-UX.
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> happy benchmarking,
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> rick jones
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> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 1:48 PM Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info> wrote:
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> > Hello all.
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> > HP-UX is one of the OSes nominally supported by libpcap and tcpdump,
> > but it is rather difficult (or expensive) to find a live HP-UX host with
> > shell for testing and development.  So before I forget again, this is
> > far from ideal, but is the best reference material I managed to find for
> > reasoning about HP-UX portability:
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> > http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/libpcap-1.10.4/
> > http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/tcpdump-4.99.4/
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> > The "source code" tarballs are not the pristine release archives, but
> > archives of working copies after applying the patches and running
> > ./configure, so there is a config.h with (or without) the various
> > HAVE_xxxx macros.
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> > The binary packages also include description of changes applied before
> > building, perhaps some of that could be up-streamed.
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> >     Denis Ovsienko
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