[4160] in SIPB bug reports
Re: modified xmosaic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Tue Oct 12 04:34:29 1993
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 93 04:33:38 EDT
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: yandros@mit.edu
Cc: bug-sipb@mit.edu, bug-outland@mit.edu, biff@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: "[4159] in SIPB bug reports"
On second look, poking through infoagents, I'm going to temporarily take
back my request that you actually remove the binary immediately, and
just flame at you instead.
It seems that the directory
/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/infoagents/.build.pmax_ul4/xmosaic-media
is a decmips build tree based somewhat on the sources in sipbsrc, so my
accusation that you were installing a cavalier testers version was
unfounded, so apologize for making it seem that way.
However, a number of the files in the build tree are symlinks to other
sources within infoagents, and not sipbsrc. I assume these are the ones
that correspond to the changes required to add the pnp service. It's
very hard to tell, because it's a big mess; the changes made are not
checked in via RCS (the src RCS directory is a symlink into sipbsrc!),
so there is no log information explaining what changes were involved.
Furthermore, there is no unstripped binary in the build tree; rather,
the binary you installed is unstripped---you installed an 3+ megabyte
motif binary with debugging symbols unstripped in the sipb locker, and
yet you complain that you are out of space to install the RS/6000
version?
I am aware that you and some other people are in a rush to get this
version in place, but it shouldn't be done this way.
I volunteered to apply the changes if they were sent to this list for
audit and do what work is necessary to get it working on all of the
platforms, but I'm not going to type another keystroke even think about
helping until I see, here, in this meeting, some explanation of what the
hell is going on, because it's just this kind of a lack of communication
that got Jeff Schiller and half of the rest of I/S angry at the SIPB not
too long ago.
-Calvin
