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9th May 2008
You can now
view
the build progress of HP-UX packages and also see what new packages we are
currently working on. The build progress page auto-refreshes every 5 minutes
so you can see the "journey" a package takes through our build system.
15th March 2007
Thanks to the kind donation of build machines from Hewlett Packard, we
now build packages on five binary platforms - the latest two that have been
added are HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) on both PA-RISC 2.0 and Itanium 2.
13th November 2006
As of today, it has been decided that the default compilers that will be used to packages will be HP's ANSI C ("cc") and C++ ("aCC"). Prior to this date, packages were built with the GNU C ("gcc") and C++ ("g++") compilers, but for various reasons, particularly performance-related ones, all new packages (or rebuilds of existing packages) will be built with HP's compilers.
10th October 2005
Thanks to the kind donation of equipment from Hewlett Packard, we are now
able to create binary depots on a third platform, namely PA-RISC 2.0 on
HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23). We will be rebuilding all Itanium 11.23 packages on
the new platform in the forthcoming months and all new packages will be
built and tested on three platforms for the first time.
11th September 2005
For the first time in many years, the package filenaming convention has slightly
changed. Source packages now have -src- (was -ss- previously) in their names,
whilst binary packages now have either -hppa- (for PA-RISC binaries) or -ia64-
(for Itanium binaries) in their names (both were -sd- previously).
This now allows users to identify the architecture of the binary packages from
the filename.
5th April 2005
New site design was launched (UK only initially), plus the Archive FAQ was brought right
up to date. The UK site is now also hosted on a faster PA-RISC box.
The other official sites have also switched to the new design.
17th September 2004
Thanks to the generous donation of equipment from Hewlett Packard,
we are now able to build packages on the PA-RISC HP-UX 11i v1 (aka HP-UX 11.11)
and Itanium HP-UX 11i v2 (aka HP-UX 11.23) platforms. All new packages from
this date onwards will be on those two platforms only. The existing
binary depot packages for 11.00, 11.20 and 11.22 will remain on the site
unless they are superseded by a new version of the package, in which case
they will be purged a month after the new version has been made available.
Note that binary depot packages prior to 11.00 may be mass-removed at
some point in the near future.
22nd January 2004
A new A-Z Index has been made available, which not
only splits listings by letter, but also by the OS releases we are actively
building binary depots on. Note that the totals won't add up on the main
page because we don't include 10.20 or 11.20 in the list of OS'es or any
packages that don't have binary depots available.
10th October 2003
All Itanium (IPF) packages will not only be
built, tested and made available for download for HP-UX 11.22, but those
11.22 packages will be further tested on an HP-UX 11.23 machine as well.
Many thanks to HP for supplying the equipment and software to enable us
to add 11.23 to our testing platforms.
29th April 2003
Our Itanium build system has been upgraded
to HP-UX 11.22, which means that IPF binary packages from that date
onwards will be made available for 11.22 (in addition to PA-RISC 11.00
binary packages).
No further testing/building of IPF 11.20 packages will take place.
June 2002
The following changes have been made to the way we build
packages on this site:
- Hewlett Packard have kindly funded a porting effort on the
Itanium Processor Family (IPF) platform,
specifically HP-UX 11.22 (aka HP-UX 11i Release 1.6).
This entails the eventual re-build of all the packages on this site,
regardless as to whether there is a new version of a package or not.
- We have made the decision to move closer to a Linux build environment
when porting packages on HP-UX (because most of the software on this site
was originally developed on Linux), so this means switching to an install tree
of /usr/local and also the use of the GNU toolchain (gcc, g++, gmake,
bison, flex etc.) wherever possible. This brings us closer to the way
HP's DSPP site builds its packages
and also means that we are using the same /usr/local
tree that all packages using GNU's configure install by default into.
- Supoort for HP-UX 10.20 builds has been dropped - note that
HP themselves stopped selling or developing HP-UX 10.20 on 1st July 2002.
New packages or new versions of existing packages will be built on
HP-UX 11.00 and 11.22 only.
Existing binary depots for 10.20 and 11.20 will remain on the site
unless a new
version of a package is made available, in which case the old version
will be purged.
The decision to drop 10.20 was also significantly influenced by our
binary build system, which can only build on 2 platforms. Since we now have
funding for building on IPF, 11.22 had to be one of the platforms. This
made it a straightforward choice between 11.00 (currently supported by HP)
and 10.20 (now unsupported by HP) - add in the fact that 11.00 downloads
far exceed 10.20 downloads from this site and the clear choice was to continue
building on 11.00.
In case you're wondering why we don't support 3 (or more) binary build
platforms, it's a case of economics and additional complexity.
More platforms means: 1) Re-writing our build system, 2) more building/testing
per package (resulting in less new packages going on the site in a given
period), 3) more difficulty in making the same source work across all the
platforms (we only usually have one source package) and 4) more disk space
required on all the official sites (many of which would require disk
upgrades).
Also note that the 2 platform build system means that we are not yet supporting
HP-UX 11.11, but almost all 11.00 packages should install correctly on 11.11.
This should also include the 11.00 binary depots - you may need
"swinstall -x allow_incompatible=true" to install those on 11.11 (we have
not tested this though).
We strongly recommend that you upgrade your HP-UX machine to at least
version 11.00 of the operating system. If you cannot do this, but still
wish to benefit from the source code packages on our site, then we suggest
you install
gcc (and preferably GNU make too) -
both can be built with the bundled K&R C compiler in HP-UX 10.20.
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