Re: [tbox-l] regarding installation of binaries on AIX6.1

[Reza A. <ar...@au...>]

Hi Vivek,

On 26 Jun 2008, 03:19AM CDT, Vivek Katakam <viv...@gm...> wrote:
> It is installable on AIX6.1 .As I am in need of  installing Ncurses on
> AIX6.1, I could not find any precompiled binary or rpm.

In most cases, AIX is completely backward compatible.  If you build software
on AIX 5.2 (as we do for the Toolbox), it will run on AIX 5.3, 6.1, etc.  

There are very rare exceptions, listed at 
<http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/compatibility/conditions/index.html>.
If we have found any of thes exceptions apply to software in the Toolbox, we
build multiple packages per OS level.

There is only one ncurses package in the Toolbox, and since it was built on AIX 
4.3, you can install it on your 6.1 machine.


-- 
Reza Arbab
ar...@au...