[2125] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: RedHat-Athena 5.1 packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Tue Sep 1 15:49:17 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:49:02 -0400 (EDT)
To: warlord@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <sjmd89fy829.fsf@incommunicado.ihtfp.org> (message from Derek
Atkins on 01 Sep 1998 14:57:50 -0400)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hi. You wrote:
Thanks. I'd like to help (since I seem to have a lot of time on my
hands during the day).
Off the top of my head:
- Someone needs to install the Athena packages on a RedHat 5.1 system
and see what works and what fails. The rc package is particularly
interesting, since it attempts to patch some files in /etc using
patches that worked with RedHat 4.2. I don't know if the patches will
work with RedHat 5.1.
- emacs didn't build for me because it tried to link movemail without
-lresolv. I guess someone needs to find a way to make it use -lresolv
on Linux without breaking it for other platforms.
- After installing all the packages, do something like
find /usr/athena -type f -print | sort
and compare the output to /mit/svalente/tmp/FILES. This should help
us figure out what was left out of package-lists.
- Maybe try copying the packages to sipb-nfs and see if the
Athena-ized install works...
In a nutshell: "Find out what doesn't work and make it work." :-)
Thanks,
Sal.
