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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu
- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: questions: vi problem, make dep, filenames, libraries
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.151111.22877@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 15:11:11 GMT
- References: <186ciiINNh60@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 25
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- mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
- >Second, I finished the GCC install script and it told me to do
- >a make dep with the kernel Makefile. What does make dep mean? Will
- >this recompile the kernel for me? How do I implement the patches in this?
-
- Doing a make dep means, basically, this:
-
- cd /usr/src/linux
- make dep
-
- Change the directory name on the first line to whatever directory you
- use to store the kernel sources.
-
- >Next, what are the limitations on filename lengths and is there a way
- >to change it????
-
- The Minix filesystem has 14 chars max per filename. This is the default
- filesystem, and the only one in production use. There is also an
- extended filesystem, extfs, that has a maximum of 256 chars per
- filename, but this filesystem is still in a testing phase, and unless
- you enjoy having problems and solving them, you probably want to stay
- away from it.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
-