[538] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Slackware 1.2.0 on Athena and Ninja
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (svalente@MIT.EDU)
Fri Apr 1 04:40:38 1994
From: svalente@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 04:40:23 -0500
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [537]
> Note that mh (inc, from, show, etc) does not yet work with this
> because the mh package was compiled with libc 4.4.4 (which is in
> Slackware 1.1.1).
When the heavy Linux development was happening last summer, Quiche
was, to my knowledge, the only Linux box on MITnet. finger
resnet@sunshine indicates that this is no longer the case.
My point is that there's no need to wait for a reinstall. Somebody
with a Linux box on MITnet and libc 4.5.x should rebuild mh and make a
new mh package.
For those of you who missed it, here's the Quick Guide To Producing
Linux-Athena Packages(tm):
1) Find the source. It's nfs exported from keesh.mit.edu:/usr/src, in
the /usr/src/athena subdirectory.
2) Find out how to build it. Read the file
/keesh/usr/src/athena/README. I mean it. Do not try to build any
Linux-Athena package without first reading this file. Really.
3) Install the new programs on your system. Instructions are in the
README file.
4) Create the .tgz file with a command something like:
tar zcvf package.tgz `cat /mit/linux/pkg-lists/package`
There's a script on Keesh called "makepackage" that does this.
5) Use ftp to a dialup to transfer the file to /mit/linux/packages.
Send mail to linux-athena@mit annoucing the new package.
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
