OT: PGP, commercial product vs opensource stuff - viability/usability

[Fairlight]

Okay, I see where I got confused.  You keep saying 5.6, which, without
the middle minor of 0, I keep equating with 6.0 somehow.  I get confused
when people leave out the minor on anything except fP, actually, like when
people refer to Solaris 5.8 (or 2.8 depending on which labelling you look
at) as simply "Solaris 8".  My mistake, sorry.

At any rate, Yes, I tested on 6.0.

If I'd recognized what you were asking as 5.0.6, I could have saved a
little bit of effort for now.  deeptht.armory.com has GPG 1.4.0 running on
5.0.6, and it works with no problems.  I'm not sure where John DuBois got
it.  Knowing him, he actually built it himself.

I just built the GPG 1.4.2 on SCO 5.0.6 with no issues for the gpg binary
itself, using the SkunkWare-supplied version of gcc.  I couldn't build the
keyserver offhand, but then I don't have OpenLDAP or CURL installed on this
system.  GPG itself compiled with the same list of algorithms as listed
last night.

I just tested --gen-key and --list-secret keys.  No problems there.  It
seems to be fine.  (Last night I forgot to add --list-keys and
--list-secret-keys to the options I tested on 6.0.)

I would give this binary to you, except it has dependcies on several
libraries you may not have, and compiling it with -static won't work
because there was never a static libz.a installed.  You'd need the UDK BCM
installed anyway.

Best I can do is tell you that gpg itself does build and work on this
platform.  I didn't waste time trying to get the keyserver to build since I
highly doubt you want to run your own keyserver.  I don't doubt I could do
it--just didn't feel that was worth the time if I can't give you the binary
dist anyway.

mark->