I have not heard from anyone with SCO experience yet.  

I have not had time to search for the warning message yet.  I will
report my findings later.

Kenneth

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 15:04 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:23:01PM -0500, Kenneth Berry wrote:
> > 1. Is SCO Openserver 5.0.7 a supported OS?  I can find very little
> > discussion on the Internet.
> 
> If you didn't get a warning beginning with
>   *****
>   This machine, target type XXXX, is not known
>   to be fully supported by this configure script.  If the
>   ...
> when you configured, then someone, somewhere, has once compiled Amanda
> on SCO Openserver.
> 
> > 2.  If it is not supported will it work anyway?
> 
> Probably, but it may take some tweaking..
> 
> > 3. Any advice on configuration options?
> 
> I've not touched a SCO machine, so I can't help you there.
> 
> > My configuration...make fails with
> > 
> > Making all in gnulib
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/u/tmp/amanda-2.5.2p1-20070606/gnulib'
> > make  all-am
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/u/tmp/amanda-2.5.2p1-20070606/gnulib'
> > /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -W -Wparentheses
> > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wformat
> > -Wsign-compare -Wno-error -D_GNU_SOURCE        -o libgnu.la   lock.lo
> > asnprintf.lo printf-args.lo printf-parse.lo vasnprintf.lo -lm -lreadline
> > -ltermcap -lsocket -lnsl -lresolv -lintl      -lsocket
> > false
> > cru .libs/libgnu.a .libs/lock.o .libs/asnprintf.o .libs/printf-args.o 
> > .libs/printf-parse.o .libs/vasnprintf.o
> > make[2]: *** [libgnu.la] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/u/tmp/amanda-2.5.2p1-20070606/gnulib'
> > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/tmp/amanda-2.5.2p1-20070606/gnulib'
> > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> I'm not even sure how to interpret that.  However, the Makefile in that
> directory (gnulib) is actually not written by us -- gnulib is a set of
> low-level utilities provided to make cross-platform compatibility
> easier, and pretty much comes with everything, including a Makefile.
> 
> Unless a SCO user speaks up here (come out, come out, lurkers!), I think
> your best bet is to look for general advice on compiling from source,
> particularly relating to gnulib.
> 
> Sorry I can't be more help..
> 
> Dustin
> 
-- 
Kenneth Berry
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Micro Beef Technologies
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