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- From: pgr@prg.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Installing gcc
- Message-ID: <pgr.140851.05Sep1992@prg.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 13:13:39 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.052329.24698@cc.umontreal.ca> <bjl.715689694@freyr>
- Sender: pgr@pierrot.comlab (Partially Grown Rhododendron)
- Reply-To: pgr@prg.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron)
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
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- Originator: pgr@pierrot.comlab
-
- In <bjl.715689694@freyr>, B.J.Lippolt@research.ptt.nl writes:
- > 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.
-
- Unless, of course, you happen to have copied the files onto a Minix
- FS first, and then moved them over to an ExtFS when wanting to do the
- installation... (not a completely impossible scenario, really).
-
- I think the simplest solution would be to make sure that the next release
- of the files (2.2.2e, or whatever) keeps to under the 14 characters...
- it would certainly have cut down the amount of noise, and would probably
- have stopped some people's confusion...
-
- pihl "adding to the noise"
- --
- phil richards -- pgr@prg.ox.ac.uk
-