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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!alchemy!ruunfs!hooft
- From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
- Subject: Re: WANT GCC? FORGET FAQ.GCC AND README?? READ THIS FIRST!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.102532.4493@fys.ruu.nl>
- Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- References: <186a86INNcsb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:25:32 GMT
- Lines: 155
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- EVERYBODY BE CAREFUL: I DO SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT IN THE
- FOLLOWING REPLY, BUT DON'T FOLLOW THEM! I THINK THE WHOLE PROCEDURE
- STINKS! READ FAQ AND README INSTEAD! HLU HAS DONE A GREAT JOB!
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-
- In <186a86INNcsb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
-
- >Forget README and FAQ.
- >THEY JUST AREN'T WORTH THE TIME READING!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- About 80% of the problems with GCC on the net are from people who did not read the
- FAQ. This is VERY BAD ADVICE!
-
- >You can find the above in /pub/linux/packages/GCC
-
- >You will also need 097.tar.Z (or something like that) from
- >/pub/linux/sources/system
-
- ???????
- You need at least 0.97 pl 1 source code to work with GCC 2.2.2d. A file
- 097.tar.Z does NOT exist at that place, and you're just confusing people!
-
- >This is the linux source code. Get the patches if you want them.
- >(I personally haven't figured out what to do with them. :) )
-
- So: You're stupid, and probably never read any manual at all!!!
-
- >So now you have these files. Hopefully they were transfered without any
- >corruption. Unfortunately they are VERY large, so I would get corrupted
- >ones about every 5th try. And you won't find this out until you're in
- >LINUX and then you'll have to reboot into DOS. Major frustration.
-
- I NEVER get corruptions. You must be doing something SERIOUSLY wrong.
-
- >BTW, these files should be in a DOS dir and they WILL take up alot of memory.
- >I think about 5MB.
-
- Maybe they take a lot of disk, but not MEMORY. More confusion. Why
- should they be in a dos dir? You could Just as well put them each
- on a different floppy?
-
- >Now reboot into LINUX and login as root. Now follow these commands.
-
- >cd /
-
- You always keep files in the root-dir?
-
- >mcd c:\<the dos dir with the above files>
- >mcopy c:*.* .
-
- This definitely WON't WORK! You'll probably get something
- along the lines of
-
- mcopy: no match
-
- the command should probably read :
-
- mcopy c:\* .
-
- READ THE MTOOLS manuals!
-
- >That should get all those files into the LINUX root dir.
- >Now, change their names using the mv (move) command.
-
- >mv <fucked up dos filename now in linux> <new filename>
-
- >Do it according to these transformations:
- >install.2.x ---------> install.2.x
- >binutils.tar.Z -------> binutils.tar.Z
- >2.2.2ddb.tar.Z -------> 2ddb.tar.Z
- >2.2.2dlib.tar.Z ------> 2dlib.tar.Z
- >2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z -----> 2dmisc.tar.Z
- >097pl1inc.tar.Z ------> 097inc.tar.Z
- >097.tar.Z ------------> 097.tar.Z
-
- >remember that these names on the left will be REALLY screwed up!!!!
- >keep track of them.........
-
- again: ???????
-
- >The reason that we have to do all this crap is because LINUX has a
- >limitation on length of filenames. UNIX doesn't have them.
- >DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THIS CAN BE CHANGED??????
-
- NONSENSE. This is not a limitation of the OS, but of the filesystem.
- The Unix System V(R) filesystem as this limitation, and linux's standard
- filesystem, the minix-one, has this too. The linux DOS filesystem has
- a limitation of 8 with an extension of 3, the linux extended filesystem 255.
-
- >Now we need to install the kernel sources.
-
- >cd /usr
- >mkdir src
- >cd src
- >mkdir linux
-
- Not needed.
-
- >cd /
- >cp 097.tar.Z /usr/src/linux
-
- not needed. Why another copy?
-
- >cd /usr/src/linux
-
- Wrong directory
-
- >uncompress 097.tar.Z
-
- Not needed.
-
- >tar -xvf 097.tar
-
- You could have done this whole series in two commands:
-
- cd /usr/src
- zcat /097.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
-
- >That should make some file and directories.
- >now do this.
-
- >cd /
- >cp 097inc.tar.Z /usr/src/linux
-
- Another copy?
-
- >cd /usr/src/linux
-
- Again: wrong directory, this should go in /usr/include, and will be put there
- by the install-script.
-
- >uncompress 097inc.tar.Z
- >tar -xvf 097inv.tar
-
- >More source files are made.
-
- HEADER files.
-
- I planned to go on to the end, but sorry, I'm exhausted. What a nonsense.
- You have really no idea what you're doing, and giving BAD ADVICE all over.
- I suspect this is another plot from a unix copyright owner on Linux, as
- was the TSX-11 ftp-criticism. No smilies @#$!
-
- >--
- >MaThiEu a. LeWis "There is no middle ground/Or that's how it seems/For
- >Thieves Like Us us to walk or to take/Instead we tumble down/Either
- >mal11@po.cwru.edu side left or right/To love or to hate."
- > -A Strange Kind of Love
-
- That's what KILL files are good for....
- --
- Rob Hooft, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research,
- Chemistry department University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
- hooft@hutruu54.bitnet hooft@chem.ruu.nl hooft@fys.ruu.nl hooft@cc.ruu.nl
-