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- From: srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: GNU finger and other GNU software installation
- Message-ID: <srp.716142423@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 16:27:03 GMT
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- silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
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- >I just gave up on trying to install GNU finger 1.35 under IRIX 4.0.5.
- >The Makefile is incredibly complex, and it didn't seem worth the struggle.
- >Does anyone have any general advice on installing GNU software, which seems
- >to be getting trickier to deal with?
-
- I put some work into the 1.10 version of the GNU finger deamon, including
- support for the IRIX xutmp hack. It worked well until I updated to 4.0.5
- where now the /etc/[x]utmp files are not updated correctly on logout. At
- first I thought it was xwsh, and so reinstalled xwsh from 4.0.2, but that
- does not seem to be the case. I don't know what/who is at fault.
-
- Anyway, I'd be happy to make available what I've done if folks are
- interested, but it's not up to date with 1.35 - and I'm less inclined to
- spend the time as long as the /etc/[x]utmp files are screwed.
-
- I've also installed the {file,text,shell}utils without too much trouble.
- The major problems are with fileblocks.c and system.h. gcc-2.2.2 and
- libg++-2.1 seemed to go well enough... Have you got specific questions in
- mind?
-
- - Scott (srp@cgl.ucsf.edu)
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