<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Nice!<br><br>That resolves the previous uncertainty as to whether the licence files are compatible between the SunOS4 and Solaris versions: they are.<br><br>A note about those linked non-expiring licence files: those exact legacy-version files were published by Oracle for free use sometime around the commercial release of the version 10/11 developer tools. Use of those specific licence files for free is blessed by Oracle (warning: *distribution* of them might not be).<br><br>That is as opposed to a paricular set of non-expiring SunForte 6.x licence files produced by the reverse-hacking of FlexLM by a Japanese individual then posted online. Oracle or some of their suppliers might have strong negative opinions about *those*.<br><br><br>-- Mike<br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 8 January 2025 16:13:52 GMT, Romain Dolbeau via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><div dir="auto">Le lun. 6 janv. 2025 à 15:31, Ron Pool via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">In a thread at <a href="https://gainos.org/~elf/sgi/nekonomicon/forum/17/16728312/1.html">https://gainos.org/~elf/sgi/nekonomicon/forum/17/16728312/1.html</a> there is a question if the non-expiring<br>Workshop 3 demo license would also work on SunOS 4 (Solaris 1.x). for SPARCompiler 3.0.1 etc. No one in that thread<br>Reported trying out that license on SunOS 4.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>I've installed the tools from the CD image kindly shared by MIke<br>Spooner, and it appears to work :-)<br><br>After installing (no license), the compiler complains with:<br><br>####<br>-bash-3.2$ /usr/lang/acc toto.c<br><br>License Error : Cannot find license file<br>(/usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat)<br> for product (SPARCompiler C)<br><br> The product has not been installed properly.<br> There are no license files in following path :<br><br> None<br>####<br><br>adding the raw "ws3.0_sparc.txt" as I downloaded it doesn't work, the<br>compiler complains about not having a proper license. However, the<br>information shared by Ron Pool was sufficient to fix the problem:<br>using "dos2unix" to remove the spurious ^M characters. Putting that in<br>the above flexlm path enable me to do some basic compilation in C:<br><br>####<br>-bash-3.2$ /usr/lang/acc toto.c<br>-bash-3.2$ ./a.out<br>Hello Worlds!<br>####<br><br>I did not try which other tools work and which don't (yet).<br><br>HTH & cordially,<br><br></div></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>