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- From: lhawkins@olaf.wellesley.edu (Lee Hawkins)
- Subject: Re: question about setld
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.132930.3311@olaf.wellesley.edu>
- Organization: Wellesley College
- References: <boccio-090992223810@photon.swarthmore.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:29:30 GMT
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- In article <boccio-090992223810@photon.swarthmore.edu> boccio@cc.swarthmore.edu (John Boccio) writes:
- >Ultrix 4.2A on DECstation 5000/240
- >
- >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 ........
- >
- >The same error occurs unless I use
- >
- >setld -D / -l /dev/rmt0h
- >
- >or
- >
- >setld -l /dev/rmt0h (/ being the default root-path)
- >
- >Is this the correct behavior for setld ?
-
- As far as I know. I've had the same problem.
-
- >
- >If so, how can I get arround it and install FORTRAN in my choice of
- >directories?
-
- I'm not sure it is wise to do so. A lot of software makes assumptions
- as to where to find the compilers, and if you randomly change where they
- are located, you will not be able to develop new software for that
- package easily. This exact thing happened to us here, by the way. DEC
- moved the location of their fortran compiler to a more 'standard'
- location between the release of IRAF v2.9 and v2.10, so I haven't been
- able to compile fortran addons to IRAF since then.
- Currently , setld installs fortran in /usr/lib/cmplrs/fort/fort, and
- links from /usr/bin/f77 to /usr/lib/cmplrs/fort/fort.
-
- >
- >Am I going to run into this problem with all DEC software?
-
- As far as I can tell.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >John Boccio
- >boccio@cc.swarthmore.edu
-
- Cheers,
- --Lee (remember me?)
-
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