According to OCTAVE.INSTALL document from the source code, GNU Octave can run on SunOS, Solaris and other Unix.
Also, the Spec Files Extra project at pkgbuild.SourceForge.net provides an SFEoctave.spec to autobuild v3.6.3. pkgbuild can build packages for either IPS or SVR4 used by Solaris or illumos. Have you tried building the current v4.2.1 with 64 bit indexing (see OCTAVE.INSTALL) for illumos from sources? I have not tried it yet but configure --enable-64 make sudo make install ---------------------------------- Legally, according to the Free Software Foundation, a Linux distro (GPL system software) cannot use ZFS (CDDL system software). But the Free Software Foundation has not been interested these past years in suing Ubuntu to make them stop (presumably because nobody else has legal standing to bring a lawsuit). Of course, this does imply the GPL is a frivolous agreement now. The irony is the FSF refuses to accept CDDL free software projects (such as illumos distros) at GNU.org or nongnu.org because their commentary-applied policy effectively restricts further to only "GPL-compatible". I know because I tried starting an illumos distro there two weeks ago. This injury is not just hypocritical to the free software community. The GPL is in jeopardy. -- John On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > > I'm getting ready to try using Hipster as a VM host using VirtualBox. > I've read through the wiki page which makes me a bit nervous. > > In particular, I need to use various USB devices with software which only > runs under Windows (e.g.an SDRplay RSP2). I abandoned an attempt to use > VBox with Solaris 10 u8 several years ago because of poor USB support. > > Does this seem likely to work? If not, will a Linux distro and ZFS work > as a host? If so which one? The sine qua non of this is having double > parity RAID for the host OS file system. If I have to use Win 7 for the > host, then I need HW RAID as I know of no SW RAID for Win 7 other than > simple mirrors. > > In the end I'd like to have OI/Illumos for web access and general work > with Windows and Linux available to run software which won't run on Solaris > (e.g. Octave and binary only WindowsWare). ------------------------------------------ illumos-discuss Archives: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/Ta7a7a6975664694b-M99f887a5c516cfc15d849206 Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
