Re: Help - EXOPC INSTALLATION

[Bob Proulx]

Manan Bhatt wrote:
> Hi all,thanks for your valuable reply.  Now i am clearing scenario.
> I am student of Master in Computer Science.

Okay.

> I am developing Data Center TCP in Exokernel.  Unfortunately
> exokernel is very old project.  I am not getting anything for this.

Lots of projects are old.  So are language and farming for example and
yet we still find them useful after all of these years.

> I have source code of Exokernel which i got from MIT website.

That is great!  However this mailing list is primarily for reporting
bugs in GNU utilities.  But what you are asking about doesn't seem to
have anything to do with the GNU utilities.  Nor is it associated with
the project in any way.  We can't be experts on everything possible.
That isn't possible.  You will probably need to look for help in a
better venue.

Unfortunately now that you have clarified that this is about the MIT
Exokernel Operating System I have no idea where would be a place to
get help for it.  Since the project seems to have been orphaned.
Orphaned projects such as these usually mean you simply must be your
own support for it.

> I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with gcc 4.7 and libc6.

Sure.  No alarms are triggered by that combination.

> The project exokernle was stop in 1998 after that no update is
> there.

If the project is an orphan then there might not be any support of any
kind available for it.  You will probably need to be able to support
yourself with it.

> They have compiled exokernel in OpenBSD 2.2 with gcc 2.7.
> Now openBSD 5.1 is there.  So i am asking weather with current
> architecture is it possible to build exokernel under unix OS or i
> have to change my definition.  It has been more than 2 months i am
> trying.

I have no idea.  I doubt if anyone on this mailing list would have any
idea.  Probably yes.  But you will need to work through the issues
yourself.  Porting and improving software can be very rewarding.  It
teaches many lessons.  But there is a lot of effort that is needed.
If no one else has done the work then it might be only you that is
left to do the work.

Your previous message showed an error with the cc1 program and Karl
replied that it looked like your compiler was broken.  I suggest
starting on the path there.

Good luck!

Bob