Re: GnuPG

Thanks for the reply, James:

Yeah, I assumed that what I would find would be a binary of the product.
Almost all (if not all) of the GNU offerings can be found pre-compiled for
a variety of platforms.  I was hoping for this sort of distribution for
iSeries.  I agree that it wouldn't make much sense to port the product to
another language.

At first glance, Patrick Townsend's offerings will satisfy the need.  It's
a bit of overkill, though, since FTP is not allowed within this particular
installation.... but I'll discuss that with him offline.

I guess a binary respository for OS/400-based GNU offerings is still over
the horizon.  A shame.

Dennis




                                                                                
                                                                     
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On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

> I searched the archives where I found some discussion items for GnuPG,
but
> did not see this question addressed:
>
> Has anyone ported GnuPG to run under OS/400 (not in a linux partition)?
> I've been unable to locate this.  Since (I gather that) the owners of PGP
> aren't yet willing to bless the OS/400 port of that product, it seems
that
> GnuPG would be the way to go.  We need this, though, on a couple of V5R1
> systems that aren't duing LPARs currently, and don't have access to the C
> compiler.

I don't know if Gnu Privacy Guard has been ported or not, but even it if
has I strongly suspect you need the C compiler to compile it.  Porting it
to another language besides a C related one would be...  nuts.

In theory porting it should not be too hard.  I'm guessing that by far the
most difficult part would be getting the build process right.

James Rich
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