C-KERMIT UPDATE HISTORY

TABLE OF DEVELOPMENT BUILDS

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Thanks to ever-growing chaos in the C language definition and the reportoire and content of libraries and header files, it's increasingly difficult to make software written in C portable to different computers and operating systems, both old and new. C-Kermit 10.0, like all previous C-Kermit releases, is intended to work on every architecture, OS and version, where it worked before, going all the way back to the 1980s. To ensure the widest possible coverage, it is necessary to build each Beta test version on as many platforms as possible; the results for the C-Kermit 10.0 development cycle are recorded here:

https://kermitproject.org/ck10devbuilds.html

If you can download and build the current Beta-test version of C-Kermit 10.0 on a platform (architecture, OS, OS version, with or without OpenSSL and/or Kerberos) that is not already in the builds table for current Beta, I can add it to the table if you send me:

1. The OS or distribution name and version number
2. The hardware architecture (e.g. x86_64, amd64, i386, RISC64, SPARC, etc)
3. The command that was used to make the build.
4. The date shown in the table is the date of the Beta test shown by C-Kermit when you start it.
5. The size of the resulting executable in bytes or megabytes.
6. The name and version number of the compiler used.
7. For SSL and/or Kerberos builds, the name and version of SSL and/or Kerberos librar(y/ies)
8. The status of the build: OK or Failed
9. A brief indication of warnings or errors in the compilation

Also your name, if you want it to be added to the credits.

The buildlog script (new 5 June 2023)

To simplify the process I wrote a script (for Unix only): buildlog. Download and install it on your Unix system (you can use getkermitscript for this). Now you don't have transcribe or copy and paste all the data; the script creates a plain-text HTML table row you can email me. Do each C-Kermit build like this (after cd'ing to the C-Kermit source-code directory):

rm -f log
make linux 2>log

The results will be in same directory, filename linux.txt (replace "linux" with whatever the makefile target name was, like "freebwsd" or "linux+ssl"). There's one complication: there is no standard cross-platform way to find out a Unix system's OS name and version. In some cases the script gets it right, but in most others — notably all the many Linux varieties — they just say "Linux" and then give the kernel version, when what we want is the distribution name and version, e.g. Ubuntu 20.04.1. Similarly for Macintosh; for example, macOS 13.3 reports its OS as Darwin 22.4.0. In cases like these you can supply this yourself on the command line; examples:

buildlog "Centos 9"
buildlog "Debian 11"
buildlog "RHEL 6.10"
buildlog "Rocky 9.1"
buildlog "macOS 13.3"
buildlog "Ubuntu 20.04.1"

You could also combine the build and the report generation like this:

rm -f log ; make linux 2>log ; buildlog "macOS 12.6.5"

Here's the netbsd.txt file produced by 'buildlog "NetBSD 9.3"':

<tr>
<td>NetBSD 9.3
<td>amd64
<td>make netbsd
<td>2023-05-09
<td>2491536
<td>gcc 7.5.0
<td>
<td>OK
<td> 

It's an HTML table row for the builds table. Any warnings produced by the compiler are added automatically in the final <td>.

Here are some examples of builds-table entries:

OS and version	Arch	Build	Date	Size	Compiler	Security	Status	Details
FreeBSD 13.1	amd64	make freebsd	2023-05-05	2556352	clang 13.0.0		OK	ckufio.c: <sys/timeb.h> is deprecated
MINIX 3.2.1	i386	make CC=/usr/pkg/bin/gcc minix3	2022-11-29		gcc 4.46		OK	No warnings
HP-UX B.10.20	PA-RISC	make hpux1000	2023-05-09	3187038	HP C 76.3		OK	Warning: ckuus3.c 4071 Types incompatible in conditional expression.
Linux Debian 11	x86_64	make linux	2023-05-05	2796992	gcc 10.2.1		OK	No warnings or errors
Linux Ubuntu 20.04.1	x86_64	make linux+krb5 CC=clang CC2=clang	2023-04-27	3067168	clang 15	MIT Kerberos 5 1.17	OK	135 warnings
Linux Ubuntu 22.04.2	x86_64	make linux+ssl	2023-05-09	N/A	gcc 11.3.0	OpenSSL 3.0.2	Failed	ckufio.c:586: security/pam_appl.h: No such file or directory
Mac OS X 10.5.8	ppc64	make macosx	2022-10-14	2477468	gcc 4.0.1		OK	No warnings
macOS 12.6.2	Intel Xeon E5	make macos	2022-12-15		clang 14.0.0		OK	(MacPro6) Warnings: 0
SunOS 4.1	SPARC Sun 3	make sunos41	2023-05-05	1933312	Bundled		OK	Pre-ANSI compiler; just a few harmless warnings
Solaris 11.4 SRU 49 64b	x86_64	make CC=/usr/bin/gcc solaris11 -j256	2022-11-04	2735640	gcc 11.3.0		OK
VMS 5.4	VAX	@ckvker.com "" "" "OLDFIB"	2023-05-05		VAX C V3.1-051		OK	(Pre-ANSI compiler) optimization suppressed in some modules
OpenVMS E9.2-1	x86_64	@ckvker.com	2023-05-09	5241856	VSI C X7.4-726		OK	Some info messages but no warnings