I've successfully built and installed the BOINC client on my gentoo-linux Alpha system. But it appears that the alpha-linux is not going to be a supported platform?

Logs from the boinc-client:

alpha-omega boinc # boinc_client
2004-09-08 09:08:02 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.50 for alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
Enter the URL of the project: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
You should have already registered with the project
and received an account key by email.
Paste the account key here: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
2004-09-08 09:08:40 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Project prefs: using your defaults
2004-09-08 09:08:40 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Host ID not assigned yet
2004-09-08 09:08:40 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2004-09-08 09:08:40 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2004-09-08 09:08:40 [---] Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
2004-09-08 09:09:42 [---] Benchmark results:
2004-09-08 09:09:42 [---] Number of CPUs: 1
2004-09-08 09:09:42 [---] 166 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2004-09-08 09:09:42 [---] 471 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2004-09-08 09:09:42 [---] Finished CPU benchmarks
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [---] Resuming computation and network activity
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Requesting 17280 seconds of work
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu' not found
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [SETI@home] Can't parse general preferences
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [SETI@home] Can't parse general preferences
2004-09-08 09:09:43 [SETI@home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for work; using your defaults
2004-09-08 09:09:44 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2004-09-08 09:09:44 [SETI@home] Requesting 17280 seconds of work
2004-09-08 09:09:44 [SETI@home] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-09-08 09:09:44 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
2004-09-08 09:09:44 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu' not found
2004-09-08 09:09:44 [SETI@home] No work from project
2004-09-08 09:09:44 [SETI@home] No work from project
2004-09-08 09:09:44 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds


Thanks,

You have to compile the seti client for boinc too and the create an file called app_info.xml wich should contain something like that:

look here http://quit.homelinux.org/app_info.xml.txt



I already did it on my Gentoo AlphaDS10 and it works

I´ve forgotten to say that you have to "patch" a file called xml_util.h to compile
the core client.
You can get it from here
ftp://quit.homelinux.org (Seti_Client_Patch)

Okay this was my bad.

3 things.

needed to install the seti-boinc client
(retrieved tar.gz)

needed to modify the xml_util.h file
Line 384
for (i=0;i\

> You have to compile the seti client for boinc too and the create an file
> called app_info.xml wich should contain something like that:
>
> look here http://quit.homelinux.org/app_info.xml.txt
>
>
>
> I already did it on my Gentoo AlphaDS10 and it works
>
>

Can someone provide me with the patched boinc core client and setiathome source so I can compile this with the Compaq C compiler on an EV6 please? The FTP server previously referred to is no longer available.

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If you wan't, it is posible to add a link to your webpage with your compiled clients, to the third party site (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_other.php).
Please contact me via email (seti-boinc@dotsch.de), that I can report the link to the boinc project team for adding.

Lars

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