OT: scaling images

[Brian K. White]

On 8/23/2011 2:11 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Craig Tooker"<craig at cwtsoftware.com>
>
>> I think the Skunkware stuff is quite old (at least it was when I last
>> looked ~5 years ago) so you might be better off going the source route
>> - provided you can compile on SCO.
>
> Does it finally not cost $750 to compile Hello World on SCO now?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra

It hasn't costed $1 since 5.0.5 or 5.0.6. You could even install the 
base OS free demo for 60 days and not even have the base OS cost in theory.

But aside from base OS, yes all necessary parts are available free and 
have been so since 5.0.5 or 5.0.6 when they started shipping a "linker 
and application development libraries" package on the base os install 
cd. It is a subset of the regular dev sys that has headers, crt, and 
linker (and assembler?) that don't need a dev sys license. It's all the 
parts necessary to use gcc for everything else.

Nowadays you can also just install the full dev sys without a license, 
and the same subset of it will work, just cc and some other binaries 
won't). The advantage is it's actually a little more complete and better 
tested by SCO themselves that way. 2 issues I know of first hand, there 
may be others.

1) There was linker bug for a while where the full (unlicensed) dev sys 
worked and the subset package didn't. When I reported it, they said "gee 
we didn't think anyone was even using that package or if it even really 
worked as intended". I was and it does barring that episode.

2) The subset package doesn't include ranlib, and the gnu ranlib is 
broken on osr5, so you either have to tell your makefiles that ranlib=: 
or install the full dev sys and it includes a working ranlib that works 
without licensing.

The downside to installing the full dev sys is that sometimes 
./configure and Makefile detect the installed native cc and try to use 
it and you have to know how to fix them yourself. That is less common 
every day and it's actually rarely a problem today. Once gcc became 
useable, configure/makefile's started either only considering that, or 
dropping sco support altogether.

-- 
bkw