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Re: bo and hamm distributions



On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote:

> When a new version of a program is released, is a copy compiled to bo and
> another for hamm? .. or is bo left without any updates?  The reason I ask
> is I thinking of re-installing the bo distribution because I can barely
> compile anything using hamm. -- probably libc6 releated, but it still
> doesn't work.

For the most part, everything is compiled only for hamm.  Many (most?)
developers don't have access to machines for compiling libc5-based stuff
easily anymore, and bo is supposed to be frozen except for security and
severe bugfix releases.

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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