[rescue] SunOS 4

[Mike Spooner]

Nice!

That resolves the previous uncertainty as to whether the licence files are compatible between the SunOS4 and Solaris versions:  they are.

A note about those linked non-expiring licence files: those exact legacy-version files were published by Oracle for free use sometime around the commercial release of the version 10/11 developer tools. Use of those specific licence files for free is blessed by Oracle (warning: *distribution* of them might not be).

That is as opposed to a paricular set of non-expiring SunForte 6.x licence files produced by the reverse-hacking of FlexLM by a Japanese individual then posted online. Oracle or some of their suppliers might have strong negative opinions about *those*.


-- Mike


On 8 January 2025 16:13:52 GMT, Romain Dolbeau via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>Le lun. 6 janv. 2025 à 15:31, Ron Pool via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> a écrit :
>> In a thread at https://gainos.org/~elf/sgi/nekonomicon/forum/17/16728312/1.html there is a question if the non-expiring
>> Workshop 3 demo license would also work on SunOS 4 (Solaris 1.x). for SPARCompiler 3.0.1 etc.  No one in that thread
>> Reported trying out that license on SunOS 4.
>
>I've installed the tools from the CD image kindly shared by MIke
>Spooner, and it appears to work :-)
>
>After installing (no license), the compiler complains with:
>
>####
>-bash-3.2$ /usr/lang/acc toto.c
>
>License Error : Cannot find license file
>(/usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat)
>       for product (SPARCompiler C)
>
>       The product has not been installed properly.
>       There are no license files in following path :
>
>               None
>####
>
>adding the raw "ws3.0_sparc.txt" as I downloaded it doesn't work, the
>compiler complains about not having a proper license. However, the
>information shared by Ron Pool was sufficient to fix the problem:
>using "dos2unix" to remove the spurious ^M characters. Putting that in
>the above flexlm path enable me to do some basic compilation in C:
>
>####
>-bash-3.2$ /usr/lang/acc toto.c
>-bash-3.2$ ./a.out
>Hello Worlds!
>####
>
>I did not try which other tools work and which don't (yet).
>
>HTH & cordially,
>
>-- 
>Romain Dolbeau
>
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