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- From: fn00@gte.com (Farshad Nayeri)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
- Subject: Re: Another installation problem (long)
- Message-ID: <FN00.92Aug28173752@tahoe.gte.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 21:37:52 GMT
- References: <BtpG4A.2yq@beach.csulb.edu>
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- In-reply-to: werts@piggy.cecs.csulb.edu's message of 28 Aug 92 17:48:09 GMT
-
- In article <BtpG4A.2yq@beach.csulb.edu> werts@piggy.cecs.csulb.edu (Michael Werts) writes:
-
- Well I seem to have gotten the boot system installed. Now I'm
- having some difficulty with libm3.
-
- I have PREFIX set to /u1/m3. However when I run m3make on libm3 it
- tries writing to /bin/ar. This turns out to be a link to
- /usr/bin/ar -- a partition with much less space available on it.
- m3make complains about the file system being full (/usr has about
- 4.4 megs) then gives another error - libm3.a does not exist. This
- is in the "all" stage of the make.
-
- Why is m3make trying to place anything in /bin/ar?
-
- Here is a guess:
-
- m3make is not trying to place anything in /bin/ar. /bin/ar is trying
- to use /tmp for its temporary files, but since libm3 is mighty big, it
- is running out of room in /tmp. The reason you get filesystem full errors
- in / is that your /tmp is probably residing on the / partition. I'd blame
- UNIX for all these misleading error messages.
-
- There are probably a number of ways to fix this problem. One way is
- to pass the right flag to ar to let it use your local directory for
- temporary space (see ar(1)). Or increase the allowance for the
- partition containing /tmp.
-
- An abbreviated form of the output is given below. Advice would be
- greatly appreciated.
-
- Mike
- (werts@csulb.edu)
-
- Hope this helps, --farshad
-
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- Farshad Nayeri Intelligent Database Systems
- fn00@gte.com Computer and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
- (617)466-2473 GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA
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