[7664] in SIPB bug reports
Re: 'latex2e' wrapper won't work on i386_linux[12]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chad)
Mon Oct 30 11:19:57 2000
Message-Id: <200010301618.e9UGICl25996@localhost.localdomain>
From: chad <y@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "29 Oct 2000 22:43:49 EST."
<y6866mboux6.fsf@indiana.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:18:12 -0500
> /mit/sipb/arch/i386_linux2 is a symlink to /mit/sipb/machtype/linux,
> which in turn appears to want to contain a.out binaries that will work
> with old Slackware/Athena and SIPB Red Hat/Athena 4.x and 5.2 boxen.
> None of these machines are based on an Athena release newer than 8.2.
The machtype indireciton layer was added to make it a little easier to
deal with these sorts of problems. It seems like it's about time to
move ~sipb/machtype/linux to ~sipb/machtype/linux-old (linux-aout?
something else?) and replace it with a new ~sipb/machtype/linux, with
support for recent linux installations.
Does anyone on either bug-sipb or linux-dev think that this is a bad
idea? What are people's opinions on doing it relatively soon versus
doing it in concert with the IAP desupporting of the old SIPB-Athena
linux platforms?
chad
