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- From: randy@kcin.alphacdc.com (Randy S. Welch)
- Subject: Re: GNU stuff is a pain to install, and I can't get any help!
- In-Reply-To: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu's message of 20 Nov 92 23:43:15 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:42:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.234315.5743@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
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- [... comments on installing GNU code ...]
-
- I've been installing GNU code on my machine at home and at work for the
- past 3 years, if anything ( imho ) the GNU code has gotten *much* easier
- to install on the systems I work on. These systems are not your state of
- the art equipment either. These are old SystemV.2 Plexus 680X0 platforms.
-
- Granted I didn't use cpio 1.x (x>1) cause it would never run right ( 2.x does
- ), and I had to edit tar1.0X code to get it to run on the Plexus, but now,
- Configure does all the work and I make a tweak to the Makefiles and off it
- runs. And that goes for nearly every GNU package out threre ( well at least
- those in a Plain Jane SysV environment ).
-
- Granted it took awhile to get gcc going, but that was working around a
- compiler that would create code that would crash our systems, and getting
- a real assembler going. At least now I have a real C/C++ compier for my
- antique. ( ie. puts out better code that the compiler use to originally
- bootstrap gcc ).
-
- Just my .02
-
- -randy
-
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