[15462] in SIPB bug reports
Re: sha1sum 4.5.3 installed in sipb for sun4x_59 (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
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From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@mit.edu>
Cc: bug-sipb@mit.edu
Subject: Re: sha1sum 4.5.3 installed in sipb for sun4x_59 (fwd)
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Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@MIT.EDU> wrote on Wed, 18 Aug 2004
at 03:11:52 -0400 in <Pine.GSO.4.58L.0408180309430.12130@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu>:
> Note to maintainers: I've placed the source and build notes
> in /mit/sipb/src/sha1sum. I've also updated the windex file
> in the man subdirectory.
Hi, Ken! I looked at your src directory, and am a bit puzzled:
| [coleco-sidewinder!jhawk] ~sipb/src/sha1sum> ls -l
| total 7152
| -rw------- 1 84092 mit 837 Aug 18 01:31 README
| -rw------- 1 84092 mit 253 Aug 18 01:01 README~
| -rw------- 1 84092 mit 3658901 Aug 18 01:15 coreutils-4.5.3.tar.bz2
| [coleco-sidewinder!jhawk] ~sipb/src/sha1sum> cat README
| Greetings future maintainers of sha1sum,
|
| sha1sum came from the coreutils tarfile you find in this directory.
| This file was extracted (using rpm2cpio) from the source RPM
| coreutils-4.5.3-26.src.rpm from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
| distribution. Because we only wanted one program from the package;
| the build process was a little bit atypical:
|
| First unpack in /tmp (the debug symbols point to /tmp so if you ever
| want to debug, you can simply unpack there again.)
|
| ./configure --prefix /tmp/foobarinstall ; make ; make install
| also ran "make check-TESTS" in the tests/sha1sum subdirectory
|
| manually copy from /tmp/foobarinstall bin/sha1sum and
| man/man1/sha1sum.1 into the sipb locker
|
| The program is installed only for solaris because coreutils is already
| part of the Athena Linux distribution.
|
| --kenta Wed Aug 18 01:29:25 EDT 2004
The current version of GNU coreutils is 5.0 -- why not install that
version of sha1sum (for both platforms?), rather than an obsolete
version from a downstream repackager?
In re debugging symbols, the easy answer is simply to use gdb's "dir"
command to set the source directory to the right place, rather than
worrying about getting it exactly right.
My personal preference, for what its worth, is to leave
untarred source trees around for easy browsing, especially
since space is really cheap[*]. But I know other people have
different habits.
--jhawk
[*] -- esp. after the quota bump I just gave it:
Volume Name Quota Used %Used Partition
sipb.src 400000 365999 91%<< 54% <<WARNING
sipb.src 600000 365999 61% 54%
