From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
Subject: Re: Additional library directories
Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:02:40 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.073029.6846@netcom.com> ringgold@netcom.com (Thomas Essex) writes:
>hph@hphbbs.E.open.de (H.P. Heidinger, Essen) writes:
>: In article <1992Dec12.063736.25929@netcom.com> ringgold@netcom.com (Thomas Essex) writes:
>: 
>: >The error I get indicates it is unable to locate library libmylib.a. And
>: >looking withing the /usr/local/lib directory I have the file libmylib.a.
>: >Also, if I link /usr/local/lib/libmylib.a to /usr/lib the command line works
>: >perfectly.
>: >  Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? 
>:                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>:        You take COH' as a reliable system - that's your mistake ...
>:        COH' is "banana software" (gets ripe at the customer's site) and
>:        for $$99 you cannot expect MWC that they test the stuff decently
>:        they deliver. Sad to say - but that's the mere truth as the V4
>:        release proved in many ways ...
>
>  Actually, after having been a system administrator on an AT&T Sys V unix 
>system for the past three years. And having a roommate that's a system 
>administrator on a BSD system longer than that, I consider Coherent to be rather
>well behaved. I've had a few problems with this release and also with 3.2. But
>I've ALWAYS gotten fast, accurate responses from tech support when I've called
>them (And that a lot more than I can say for some of the AT&T support I've
>seen). And for $99 I don't expect to have an operating system that is totally
>bug free. Especially considering the amount of software that you're really 
>getting for that price. And you can hardly find a stand-alone package for that
>price that doesn't have bugs in it.
>  I've also received a message from MWC that they will be fixing this problem,
>and they've given me a suitable work around. Specifically, using the $LIBPATH
>variable. And that's without calling tech support.
>  Currently, my only real beef with MWC is that I want tcp/ip and it's not out
>yet!!!!!

What people don't seem to realize is the change involved in going from Coherent
3.2.1a to 4.0.[01].  The differences between 286 protected mode and 386 
protected mode are large.  With iBCS2 and COFF compatibility, even more work 
was involved.

This is version x.0.  I have worked of version x.0 from a lot of 'big' 
companies and had as many problems or more problems than in Coherent 4.0.

Whenever a company changes processors, or major versions etc. it is an 
unfortunate fact of life that bugs creep in.  On my current machine at work, 
the sales reps are saying about the next release, which is an SysVr4 upgrade 
from our current SysVr3, "Don't be in a real rush for 2.0".

And it was not all pretty when HP went from Motorola CISC to RISC based 
workstations.  That was version 8.0 of their operating system.  But months 
later, the system was just as stable and bug-free as the old system.  They, 
like MWC, have good tech. support so they gave us workarounds for the bugs 
where they could.

Harry
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