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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: Faq for 0.95p5...needed!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.165752.11975@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1992Dec13.020706.1963@camaro>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:57:52 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- tfoley@camaro (Tim Foley) writes:
- > Someone should write a faq for converting from 0.98p1 to 0.98p5 and
- >above.
-
- Probably one of the easiest ways is to install the newest SLS. That
- should make it easier for you to stay up to date as well. I did this
- myself, just to see what SLS looks like. (I'm probably going to start
- from scratch _again_ in a while, just for the pleasure of compiling
- everything myself; however, I think I know what I do and how most
- things work, if you don't you might be better off with SLS).
-
- If you have things that are not in SLS, you should get their sources,
- upgrade to SLS, then recompile and install them. Recompilation is
- needed so that the program will not use old versions of system calls,
- and such things.
-
- There are a couple of things that won't be fixed by a simple
- recompilation. I know of two programs: uucp and minicom. uucp uses a
- library function (sigaction, I think) in such a way that it triggers a
- bug, and will cause trouble because of that. This can be fixed by
- configuring uucp so that it won't use sigaction. Minicom has a bug
- that causes it to modify a string literal, which is not allowed. This
- can be fixed by replacing the string literal with an array that has
- been initialized to the value of the string literal.
-
- I do not know whether the above are fixed in the current versions of
- SLS, but if not, they will be.
-
- For people who don't enjoy building their systems from scratch, SLS is
- currently the easiest way of installing Linux. Those of us who prefer
- to do it our own way (with our very own bugs :) do it that way.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
-