ngIRCd 23 on Linux 1.2.12 / S.u.S.E. 1995/08 - ngIRCd Users

6 Jan 2016


      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