[7090] in Consulting_FYI
Re: New volumes ready
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Aug 19 13:32:09 1994
To: cfyi@MIT.EDU
Cc: gnu@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Aug 1994 21:03:25 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 13:31:55 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
For the past few years, the gnu locker has been in a state of decay,
with the RS6000s only partially supported, the Suns completely
unsupported, and most programs in the locker at outdated, broken
versions. Most of the programs were available for Decstations, Vaxen,
and RTs.
Some time in the next few hours, the locker /mit/gnu will (probably)
change to point to a new set of volumes containing new versions of the
programs, built for Ultrix, Solaris, AIX, and SunOS. There are a
number of changes to take into account:
* Vaxes and RTs are no longer supported. People who wish to
use unsupported gnu programs can use
/afs/sipb/project/gnu/{vaxbin,rtbin}.
* epoch (a non-FSF version of emacs) is no longer supported.
* Suns and RS6000s are now supported.
* Many programs have been upgraded to new versions.
* gcc now has only one name, "gcc". All the old baroque names
are gone. Also gone are "bsh", "permute-index", and
"pfbtops".
* The "doc" directory has been slightly reorganized; general
FSF documents are in "general" rather than split between
the "license" subdirectory and the top-level doc directory.
* The top-level directory no longer contains "@sys" symlinks;
instead, use "bin" and "lib" or the usual Athena $bindir and
${machtype}lib directories.
People with questions should send them to gnu@mit.edu.
