From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N9heg-0004jT-JS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:08:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4103FE0C11 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f215.google.com (mail-bw0-f215.google.com [209.85.218.215]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5957E095F for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so4937026bwz.26 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:07:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=RI2JTkF3BseTOMsoZRF2FSCUXRdxf5+4njuQvd0CEvs=; b=JCy5Xy6S79hwfmJjSnvf21oV26jxZ/168th6o7VvFZlf9becaU7YFErGj1qx4r/4cT JmktpWPlPeluDWIzY53EH6EdBE2RYdaYN7XonFkmPdOEai+f2jrWP2lorp7jb+FlE8R9 RWidYj+sSmeaWWNnAsmv0qr4KBLcbd741gCHI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=WU12iObmlhrFlnCnHUd3lTuTkkLtC2diUXTC83MiGg/MMUMfojDTRnIWI5GWvpViD9 2Iy8ZSdtbh8UwgDka7MKnZcGsBQ6J34oQS4Xzqu6KYFY3Z24bQLyZp53d0y9YlwlA11M 3lIjEbkJcRZKUwyMK2bkDcxggjZtwbT9m1t9s= Received: by 10.216.86.129 with SMTP id w1mr768611wee.145.1258297653959; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:07:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-114-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.114]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm2911806eyf.8.2009.11.15.07.07.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:07:32 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openwatcom ebuild question Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:06:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.31-zen7; KDE/4.3.74; x86_64; ; ) References: <20091114153359.376ca924@osage.osagesoftware.com> <200911151029.12348.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20091115084416.7214b204@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20091115084416.7214b204@osage.osagesoftware.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911151706.27108.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 45c7572f-0c66-44b4-abaa-c4f1d908f72e X-Archives-Hash: e90a06239efd353ab8fe61aa5258287c On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:44:16 David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:29:12 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 15 November 2009 06:07:59 David Relson wrote: > > > The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole 'nother > > > subject and I'm in communication with the developer about it. > > > > Is this the very famous watcom compiler that's been around longer > > than MS-DOS and eventually ended up being owned by Sybase? > > You are correct -- though lacking the "Sybase released it to the open > source world" detail. Sybase actually release the source to something? Surely you jest? I used to work for the local Sybase reseller. I would not have thought management would ever have open-sourced anything. Well, well, whaddayaknow. Miracles do happen. watcom was a very nice compiler back in the day. I remember it trashing the pants off anything else in the market (this was in the DOS-3.x era) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com