[260] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Greg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Dec 11 16:48:08 1993
To: svalente@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 11 Dec 93 03:39:26 -0500.
<9312110839.AA07828@primavera.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 16:47:37 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Damn damn damn. The xlogin sources in /usr/athena/src were mildly
> broken in some places that I fixed after installing tamu. If I ever
> get back to the Sipb office, I'll try to refix them.
If you can describe the problems, I'm familiar enough with xlogin to
fix them myself, I think.
>> /usr/athena/src is not /usr/src/athena, and there's no src
>> subdirectory.
> Why? (Getting rid of the second src is good, but it should go in
> /usr/athena...)
I want to be able to NFS-export one directory tree /usr/src, possible
with a hesiod pointer. Symbolic links from /usr/src to
/usr/athena/src won't work (and besides, it'd be nice to be able to
mount /usr/src on quiche and then just do 'make install', and the
directories have to be the same for that to work). /usr/athena/src
isn't standard for any Athena platform, so I'm not terribly worried
about precedent.
I have xmkmf working now; that makes things easier.
It seems hesiod wasn't in the backup, so I pulled it over from rel-eng
and recompiled it. It seems to work fine. (There's still the problem
that 'from' can't find the PO server.)
> It should be noted that after installing xfree-2.0 (from /mit/linux)
> (over the tamu distribution), I just copied Xconfig.sample to
> Xconfig and it worked. Not a single character has to be changed.
> Yay.
I untarred everything from xfree-2.0 and copied Xconfig.sample to
Xconfig, and when I started X, the screen went blank and the machine
refused to respond to anything I typed.
> Ouch. I worked a lot after installing tamu to get dash to install
> correctly, I guess those changes were also lost with
> /usr/athena/src. Damn damn damn. Oh well.
You just wanted it to create the directories if they didn't exist? I
should be able to reproduce that fairly easily.
The problem with lpr was silly; it couldn't find /bin/csh, because it
was in /usr/bin. We didn't need to run makespools anyway. There
really isn't a good distribution in this world, I'm beginning to
think. Oh, well.
> What's the problem with discuss?
There were some files missing. I'm not sure why. I pulled it over
from rel-eng and it seems to be building fine now.
Did you need to make any mods to hesiod or discuss?
--GBH
