[7667] in SIPB bug reports
Re: 'latex2e' wrapper won't work on i386_linux[12]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Mon Oct 30 20:09:54 2000
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:09:43 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200010310109.UAA28615@bart-savagewood.mit.edu>
To: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
CC: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[7664] in SIPB bug reports"
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Chad wrote:
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...
Been there, done that.
Does anyone on either bug-sipb or linux-dev think that this is a bad
idea?
It was a good idea when it was done in Feb 1999.
Let me explain:
/mit/sipb/machtype contains a directory called "linux", which contains
libc5 executables. /mit/sipb/arch/i386_linux2 points to this
directory, because i386_linux2 was the sysname used on RedHat-Athena 4.2.
Over the past year or so, we have not been supporting (installing new
software for) the linux-libc5 machtype. machtype/linux, like
machtype/vax, exists primarily for historical purposes.
/mit/sipb/machtype contains a directory called "linux3", which
contains libc6 executables. /mit/sipb/arch/i386_linux22 and i386_linux3
point to this directory. This machtype is supported.
All is well.
This thread started when dmaze reported a bug in
machtype/linux/bin/latex2e. His bug report is correct: That script
does not work on RedHat-Athena 4.2 systems. I may try to fix the bug
after I finish writing this email, or I may just ignore it, since
RH-A 4.2 is not a supported platform anymore.
Sal.
P.S. /mit/sipb/machtype/linux3/bin contains 76 symlinks to
../../linux/bin. Of course, these symlinks should be erased and those
programs should be rebuilt. Maybe I'll deal with some of them in the
near future.
