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- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Two questions
- Message-ID: <5384@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 10:46:10 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.034523.19524@athena.mit.edu>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
- Lines: 20
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- In article <1992Jul20.034523.19524@athena.mit.edu> chchen@stat.fsu.edu writes:
- >
- > 1. I am using the MCC-interim version. If I want to upgrtade, is it
- > necessary that I need the MCCed kernel or I can just grab the kernel
- > sources from Linus and compile it directly? Someone said that the system
- > can be 'mixed'. So can I just use commands like PAX on the MCC one?
-
- The MCC interim versions of Linux are just collections of software;
- you can add programs from anywhere or recompile the kernel or whatever.
-
- The main caution is this: Most of the executable binaries distributed
- as part of the MCC interim versions use shared libraries which are
- installed from the utilities disk. You need to keep these shared
- libraries unless all binaries linked with them are replaced. Naturally,
- each new MCC release replaces all the binaries from the previous releases,
- so this affects only files which you compile yourself or get from some
- other source.
-
- -- Owen
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-