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- From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
- Subject: Re: [WANTED] diffs for the following:
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.205452.14871@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
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- References: <C0r9py.FB9@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:54:52 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <C0r9py.FB9@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umrose05@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dave Rose) writes:
- >
- > Recently I went and upgraded my system with the libc4.2 libraries
- >and gcc 2.3.3 (i486), installation seemed to go fine, and lots of things
- >seemed to work ok. Only now a few days later am I realizing that all is
- >not well. The problem is, I don't know exactly WHAT is broken, so I've been
- >trucking along re-compiling what I can and seeing if things have improved.
-
- I have done the same thing, too, and I noticed that some of the
- instructions that came with the libdisk and gccdisk stuff were
- incomplete. For instance, the "Installing on the Hard Drive" section,
- when providing that little script with the "for ... do" loop, omits the
- lib subdirectory from the "for d in bin dev etc usr" line which than
- misses updating your /bin directory on your HD. So that has to be added
- to that line. Another problem might come from existing sym links that
- mandates manual fixes not mentioned in the instructions. I am kinda'
- new at this, but I noticed that after following the lib upgrade
- instructions to the letter, the /lib/libc.so.4 was still linked to the
- old libc.so.4.1, instead of the new libc.so.4.2 as I saw it on the
- libdisk floppy from which the upgrade was done. Same goes for the
- /lib/libm.so.4 that remained linked to libhard.so.4.0 while on the
- floppy it was linked to something else. So I manually relinked it to
- reflect what I saw on the floppy. I hope I did the right thing and if I
- blew it, I better find out from somebody before I do some damage.
-
- BTW, without adding that bin directory to the "for d in ..." script
- line, the new Seyon 1.72 binary distribution would not even install
- because its install script would not find the new /lib/libc.so.4.2 lib.
- (Yes, Mr. Seyon! -- did you know that? ;-)
-
- I suppose it's those preexisting sym links that may make the major new
- SLS upgrade problematic, also. Is that right, Peter?
-
- Regards,
- Joe
-