Responding to a note from Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:08:27 -0600.
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> The OS is 11.00, and I can't tell about the compiler ('cc -v' is giving
> some odd output but no version number).
Because of historical legacy most of the HP-UX programs report version
information using SCCS what strings. Running 'what' on binary is the
usual way to get version information. Example from one of my systems.
$ what /bin/cc
/bin/cc:
$Revision: 92453-07 linker linker crt0.o B.11.37 040218 $
LINT B.11.11.14 CXREF B.11.11.14
HP92453-01 B.11.11.14 HP C Compiler
$ PATCH/11.00:PHCO_27774 Oct 3 2002 09:45:59 $
This shows the compiler version as B.11.11.14 updated by the
PHCO_27774 patch.
> I build on lots of "old" stuff. :-) (More accurately, I generally build
> on the oldest box I can find and trust the binaries to work on a newer
> box as well,
Generally that can be relied upon. I know of a case where an HP-UX
8.05 binary was being run fine up through 11.23. But I also know of
one case where an old 8.05 binary stopped working on 11.0 and I never
figured out why. But these are both pretty extreme examples.
> and "the oldest box I can find" is usually the same one we build our
> own products on; i.e. it is the oldest stuff that *we* still
> support.)
Note that HP-UX 11.0 is now out of vendor support as of the end of
year 2006. HP-UX 11.0 was released in 1997.
Bob
