Linux 1.2.12 (susi95.3rz.org) (ttyp0) susi95 login: root Last login: Tue Jan 5 23:14:29 on tty1 Linux 1.2.12. (POSIX). You have mail. HOW YOU CAN TELL THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A ROTTEN DAY: #32: You call your answering service and they've never heard of you. susi95:~# uname -a Linux susi95 1.2.12 #3 Sun Jul 30 06:18:00 MET DST 1995 i686 susi95:~# joe Couldn't load termcap/terminfo entry susi95:~# TERM=vt100 susi95:~# joe [...] # ./configure [...] ngIRCd 23 has been configured with the following options: Host: i686-pc-linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compiler flags: -g -O2 -pipe -W -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -DSYSCONFDIR='"$(sysconfdir)"' -DDOCDIR='"$(docdir)"' 'ngircd' binary: /usr/local/sbin Configuration file: /usr/local/etc Manual pages: /usr/local/share/man Documentation: /usr/local/share/doc/ngircd Syslog support: yes Enable debug code: no zlib compression: no IRC sniffer: no Use TCP Wrappers: no Strict RFC mode: no IDENT support: no IRC+ protocol: yes IPv6 protocol: no I/O backend: select() PAM support: no SSL support: no libiconv support: no platformtest.sh: Running "make check" ... ** WARNING: The vsnprintf() function of this system isn't standard ** conformant and returns a WRONG result: -1 (should be 12)! The test ** result has been ignored but may lead to errors during execution! the executable works ("runs") as expected --+ tests run successfully ("make check") --+ | ngIRCd compiles ("make") --+ | | ./configure works --+ | | | | | | | Platform Compiler ngIRCd Date Tester C M T R * --------------------------- ------------ ---------- -------- -------- - - - - - i686/pc/linux-gnu 2.6.3 23 16-01-06 goetz Y Y y Y 1 platformtest.sh: Warning: Some tests have been skipped! # file src/ngircd/ngircd src/ngircd/ngircd: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC) not stripped # ls -l src/ngircd/ngircd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 636093 Jan 6 14:43 src/ngircd/ngircd # strip !$ strip src/ngircd/ngircd # ls -l !$ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 299008 Jan 6 14:45 src/ngircd/ngircd @AB: one thing – the “Tester” was not filled out by the platformtest script, it was just empty … Cool stuff, folks, that this runs unmodified on a quite old Linux! Keep on hackin’! Regards Götz