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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: [BSD386] 'make' seems to take a long time - elm2.4
In-Reply-To: hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:54:47 GMT
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:59:38 GMT
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In article <1992Nov19.035447.29105@moxie.hou.tx.us> hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us (Greg Hackney) writes:
   venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat) writes:

   >I have been trying to install elm2.4 on my 386 running Bsd/386. After I answer
   >all the config questions and elm instructs me to run make, when I do so it
   >seems to take a long time. I have waited for about 4-5 mins and all the while
   >there is no disk activity. Is this normal ? Does 'make' take this long ?

   It won't compile right with the existing version of /bin/sh. You
   need to copy 386BSD's bash onto /bin/sh.

This may cause you problems when booting.  It's also going to expose
all the sh dependent code in system shell scripts.  Rich