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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!summer
From: summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield)
Subject: etc01 and libcompat.a
Message-ID: <9310218.15794@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Organization: Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 08:18:16 GMT
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I've just got round to unpacking the etc01 distribution on my notebook,
which is now quite happily running a patched kernel with patched src01.
It takes up a lot of space, and I don't want most of it, so I thought
"I'll compile what I want, install it, and then delete everything else!"
(After all, if something I use desparately needs patching, I can always
extract it again!)
Anyway, some of the stuff I want needs libcompat.a. I searched around,
and found that this is in the isode stuff (most of which I don't want,
but what the heck -- I'll just install the library, and anything else I
really need). But isode won't compile as extracted -- it has trouble
finding its header files. I'm sure I can hack around this, but I figure
it all ought just to compile, oughtn't it? What is the problem here?
Am I fooling myself to think I can pick and choose from the etc distribution?
Do I need all of isode, and can I compile it independently?
Thanks,
Mark.
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Mark Summerfield, Photonics Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
ACSnet[AARN/Internet]: summer@ee.mu.oz[.au]
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