From: Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com>
To: moss@cs.umass.edu
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, jaltman@secure-endpoints.com
Subject: Re: Compiling C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02 on Cygwin
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:15:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFWoy7H5CvNFcV0pXDb+Xvbr7TzX_a1_56JAt4PBxWj4pxrSMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c662458a-f989-f1ee-83cc-04f0c9a6548e@cs.umass.edu>
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 15:31 Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu> wrote:
> On 11/30/2020 5:17 PM, Keith Christian via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:44 PM Jeffrey Altman
> > <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:
> >> I suspect building C-Kermit with SSH, OpenSSL, Kerberos v5 support is
> >> going to be problematic since none of that code has been updated in more
> >> than a decade to keep up with the latest upstream packages. I suggest
> >> you start by trying to build for a generic linux target without any
> >> security features.
> >>
> >> Jeffrey Altman
> >> former Kermit developer
> >
> > Jeffrey,
> >
> > Thanks so much, appreciate your taking the time to respond. I was
> > puzzled when C-Kermit was dropped from Cygwin several years ago.
> > Former Kermit developer, quite the credentials!
>
> Just checked, and this does not compile out of the box for either the
> linux or posix target. Not
> sure how much work will be required. Too bad it is not set up to use
> ./configure to see what's
> actually available on the platform / how to use it ...
>
> Best wishes - Eliot Moss
>
Thanks, Eliot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-30 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-30 15:06 Keith Christian
2020-11-30 18:23 ` Achim Gratz
2020-11-30 21:44 ` Jeffrey Altman
2020-11-30 22:17 ` Keith Christian
2020-11-30 22:31 ` Eliot Moss
2020-11-30 23:15 ` Keith Christian [this message]
2020-12-01 4:21 ` gs-cygwin.com
2020-12-01 16:20 ` Keith Christian
2020-12-01 17:32 ` gs-cygwin.com
2020-12-01 22:09 ` Keith Christian
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