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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich 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 Message-ID: <RICH.92Nov21115938@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <Bxx6zB.JDw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov19.035447.29105@moxie.hou.tx.us> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:59:38 GMT Lines: 13 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