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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: apologies, but I still need a little help
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.200011.28590@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 20:00:11 GMT
- References: <186qb2INNai1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 57
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- mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
- >in my root dir.
- >
- >0971inc.tar.Z
-
- It is usually considered common sense to not put extraneous files in the
- root directory. Since there was no mention of a specific directory
- where I should put the files, I created a new directory for them and put
- them there (/usr/tmp/gcc2-install, if I remember correctly). Worked
- pretty well.
-
- >NOTICE THE TRUNCATED FILE NAMES.
-
- I notice. I also noticed them when I installed gcc. Since there was no
- mention about a need to do something special about them, I did nothing
- and assumed that the installation script knew how to handle them. It
- did. (Actually, it didn't have to do anything special about them.)
-
- >sh install.2.x -v 2.2.2d /usr/src/linux
- >
- >:command not found
- >'yntax error near '()
- >'nstall.2.x:5: 'kernelstuff()
-
- Did your files go via MS-DOS, so that the shell script (a text file) got
- Unix newlines (a lonely LF) converted to MS-DOS newlines (CR then LF)?
- It looks like you did. If so, you need to remove the CRs, with flip or
- some other similar utility if you have one, or standard text utilities
- (tr comes to mind) if you don't.
-
- >SO NOW I ASK, NOW THAT I HAVE FOLLOWED ALL THE DOCS, WHAT SHOULD I DO?????
- >I appreciate any info that you can send.
-
- A vague recollection of the steps I went through while installing gcc
- 2.2.2d:
-
- - got release-2.2.2d and README
- - printed them out on hardcopy
- - read them thoroughly
- - get all the other files, the list is in release-2.2.2d
- - since the above was done at my university, I created tar files of all
- the gcc files (gcc-1.tar, gcc-2.tar, gcc-3.tar, etc), and put those
- onto DOS floppies
- - at home, I copied the tar files from DOS floppies to a Linux partition
- with mount/cp/umount cycles
- - created /usr/tmp/gcc-install
- - untarred the gcc-?.tar files into /usr/tmp/gcc-install
- - re-read README and release-2.2.2d, and glanced at install.2.x
- - made certain that I had the kernel sources in /usr/src/linux
- - entered the command ./install.2.x 2.2.2d /usr/src/linux
- - I probably executed, in /usr/src/linux, the command make dep
- - I deleted /usr/tmp/gcc-install with contents, since I don't ever have
- enough disk space
- - I don't remember doing anything else
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
-