[6154] in SIPB bug reports
outdated software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Sep 29 18:08:16 1996
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 29 Sep 1996 18:08:26 -0400
Bug 1: The SIPB locker has a very old version of dvips for at least
the i386_linux<n> and the i386_nbsd1 systems. This version (a) does
not use kpathsea and has out-of-date search paths hardcoded and (b)
doesn't work with Linux distributions (such as recent releases of
RedHat) which have libc.so.4 in /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib instead of
/lib.
Bug 2 (completely unrelated): The Solaris version of gzip in the SIPB
locker is old (version 1.2.2) and lacks the -N flag. -N requests
timestamp preservation, so it is useful. Since I put that flag in the
environment variable $GZIP, gzip exits with an error on Solaris
unless I either unset the variable or add -f gnu.
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