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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: PATCHES 84-108 COMING
Date: 28 Feb 93 21:43:02
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <CGD.93Feb28214302@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <JKH.93Mar1014636@whisker.lotus.ie>
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In-reply-to: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie's message of Mon, 1 Mar 1993 01:46:36 GMT
[ i'm making this public reply in case anybody else is going to
try to find and install these... i've also sent the info off to
Jordan, and i'm sure by now, he's sick of getting mail from me... -- cgd 8-]
In article <JKH.93Mar1014636@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>patch00088:PATCH: SCSI TAPEDRIVE FIXES
requires that patch00601 is installed first.
solution: when patches finds this problem, control-c it,
start it over, install 601, and then IALL again.
>patch00093:PATCH: BETTER BYTE SWAPPING FOR GCC1 & GCC2
the changes to db.h aren't valid C syntax, at least according
to gcc1.39!
solution: where the B?_SWAP* macros are redefined,
near the end of part.2 of the patch, add
a semicolon before the } at the end of each line.
>patch00099:PATCH: GENERIC SCSI FILES
>patch00108:PATCH: MAKEDEV AND CONF PATCHES FOR MEDIA CHANGER
both modify /dev/MAKEDEV -- this isn't a bug, but can
cause installation to fail, if you've installed julian's
scsi system in the past. also, means that you can't
just blow away /usr/src, get a virgin source tree, and
re-patch the system.
solution: get a new /dev/MAKEDEV every time you want
to reinstall sources from scratch.
(i don't think this is a good solution; i don't
think the patchkit should be modifying files
which aren't in /usr/src...)
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
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