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- From: heim2@frieda.frieda (Gerald Heim)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: Version 1.6.24b upgrade problems
- Date: 8 Jan 93 13:05:43
- Organization: /home/heim_ti/.organization
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- References: <HEIM2.93Jan5163449@schroeder.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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- <C0I9qB.I1v@cs.vu.nl>
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- In-reply-to: ast@cs.vu.nl's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:42:11 GMT
-
-
- In article <C0I9qB.I1v@cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
-
- >I was not able to get the new tools (forgot the names, substitutes for
- >build and menu) running. They compiled w/o a warning, but didn't work.
- Some additional information here might help us debug it.
-
- OK. I'll try. I think the name of the program was "construct". It's
- appearently used to build a bootimage consisting of kernel,fs, mm, init,
- monitor and the bootblock. Somewhere in the makefile it's called as
- "construct -i image <parts>", but it doesn't build a image. Since
- I had no manual available, I gave up and used shoelace, with which I was able
- to boot the new kernel. Init, the kernel, fs and mm ran (I could see by
- pressing F1), but init didn't fork any processes, nor was it wasting time,
- nor complaining about anything. The idle-task accumulated cpu-ticks as usual.
- A running system, but completely unusable :->
- I don't know if this was due to my filesystem (1.5.10ish, whatever that means).
-
- It changed radically, to support POSIX, but that was something like two years
- ago. Most programs that care were changed too. I think readfs may be the
- only one left that is not fixed.
-
- Hmm. Is something like 2 years before or after the release of 1.5.10?
- If it changed since then, bootstrapping a new system would be some
- kind of difficult. Would it then be possible to distribute a diskimage with
- the new kernel and some basic programms in /bin, maybe even a
- binary of the new KnRish library? But this doesn't matter to me, since
- I will definitly stay with 1.5.10 :-)
-
- My contribution to the C-Compiler-Flame-War:
- Building a new library, I tried to use the 1.6.16 tsort. It failed utterly
- sorting an input of ~20k output of lorder. It gave me 38 Bytes of output!!!
- I downloaded tsort.c to my linux box and compiled it with gcc (I had to
- comment out the _PROTOTYPES). Now it ran ok and gave me a order of the
- complete library. Strange. But this might be a library bug.
-
- gjh
-
- aehm: if my address in the header is wrong:
- heim@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de is the correct one
-