[2636] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: "unused" packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose H Mercado)
Mon Feb 15 18:41:51 1999
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:12:27 EST."
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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:41:34 EST
From: Jose H Mercado <jmercado@MIT.EDU>
>(bzip2 especially doesn't belong in the Athena component. It's in the
>sipb locker, so people running Linux-Athena actually have less use for
>it than people running Linux without Athena.)
Does "make bzImage" need bzip2? If so, we might want to have
bzip2 installed. The error message generated by make when the kernel
is too large for gzip instructs the user to do a "make bzImage" instead.
Having bzip2 around would make it much easier on the user trying to
compile their own kernel in this case. They would only have to run a
different command rather than having to get a package then go back to
their compile.
