[7666] in SIPB bug reports
Re: 'latex2e' wrapper won't work on i386_linux[12]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Oct 30 13:10:34 2000
To: chad <y@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
In-Reply-To: chad's message of "Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:18:12 -0500"
Date: 30 Oct 2000 13:10:27 -0500
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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.
Why bother? Linux-dev has already desupported everything prior to 5.2.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
