[7665] in SIPB bug reports
Re: 'latex2e' wrapper won't work on i386_linux[12]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Oct 30 11:35:49 2000
To: chad <y@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Oct 2000 11:35:30 -0500
In-Reply-To: chad's message of "Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:18:12 -0500"
Message-Id: <sjm66mathgt.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
I think if you update it, and build everything on a RH5.2 system, you
can do it now. If you want to build it on an I/S Linux-Athena, RH 6.2
system, you should probably wait until the 5.2 desupport in IAP.
-derek
chad <y@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > /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
>
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