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- From: bjl@loki.research.ptt.nl (Ben Lippolt)
- Subject: Re: Installing gcc
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 10:41:34 GMT
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- duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
-
- >Excuse me for sounding so ignorant but I'm really stumped here. I want to
- >install gcc 2.2.2d but the install script is asking me for files which are
- >longer than 14 characters (2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z for example). Am I missing
- >something here or is it now possible to have filenames longer than 14
- >characters? If the latter is true, how do I do this?
-
- Oops, I hope you don't start a flame war here :-).
-
- But seriously; you can have file names longer than 14 chars, but you'll
- need the 'extended filesystem' (extfs for short). Officially 'extfs'
- is still alpha, but I use it for all my partitions for some time now. It
- is quite stable, but you have to 'fsck' regularly.
- If you still use the minix fs, you can't have filenames > 14. But this is
- not a problem when installing GCC. The kernel automatically chops off
- all characters > 14. So even if your real filename is 2.2.2dmisc.tar
- and in the install script it is 2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z there should be no problem.
- (try "ls 2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z" in the directory where you keep '2.2.2dmisc.tar')
-
-
- Ben Lippolt
-