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- From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
- Subject: Re: question about setld
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 04:51:42 GMT
- References: <boccio-090992223810@photon.swarthmore.edu>
-
- In article <boccio-090992223810@photon.swarthmore.edu> boccio@cc.swarthmore.edu (John Boccio) writes:
- >We would like to install DEC software such that the root-path is not /.
- >The man page for setld says to use
- >
- >setld -D root-path -l location
- >
- >I am trying to install DEC FORTRAN v3.2.
- >I issued the command
- >
- >setld -D /usr/things -l /dev/rmt0h
- >
- >An error came back...it said.....
- >
- >NO INSTALLABLE SUBSETS ........
-
- For some software, you need to make a bin directory in your new root
- (/usr/things/bin in your case) and put a copy of /bin/machine there.
- The software-specific install scripts use that to see if they're
- running on a mips platform. If not, it usually tells you that you're
- on the wrong architecture.
-
- I've installed several setld-installed products in different roots this way.
- DECwrite/DECpresent/DECchart, for example.
-
-
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