[comp.sys.dec] A place for f77

flanagan@lisbon.stat.washington.edu (Jim Flanagan) (11/28/90)

  Is there a way to install f77 from the setld into a useful place rather 
  than into the main /usr filesystem. The man page for setld isn't too
  obvious about this. 

  I want to to try to force setld to place files in /usr/local/{whatever}
  instead of /usr/{whatever} and have f77 know where everything is. Is
  this even possible?

  Please reply via mail.

  Thanks.
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Jim Flanagan, Sys. Programmer = flanagan@stat.washington.edu
Dept. of Statistics	      =          stat.washington.edu
University of Washington      =               washington.edu

flanagan@lisbon.stat.washington.edu (Jim Flanagan) (11/29/90)

  I recently posted an article about trying to coerce setld to put the f77
  distribution in a more useful place than the default. The default is to
  put everything in a tree with / as the root.

  I got a few replies to the effect:

	setld [dir] -a ....

  "does what you want." 

  I failed to mention I am running Ultrix 4.0, and I had tried something
  like

	setld [-D dir] ....

  But all that did was change the root to "dir" (in my case /usr/local) and
  so instead of everything ending up in /usr/{blah blah} it ended up in
  /usr/local/usr/{blah blah} which is not the desired result. It looks like
  I'd have to make symbolic links to everything in /usr/local/usr!

  The effect I am searching for is to put everything in /usr/local/{blah blah}
  rather than /usr/{blah blah} or /usr/local/usr/{blah blah} AND have the
  added benefit of it being able to run from there.

  Thanks to those who replied, and sorry of it turns out I merely misunderstood
  your messages.


  
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Jim Flanagan, Sys. Programmer = flanagan@stat.washington.edu
Dept. of Statistics	      =          stat.washington.edu
University of Washington      =               washington.edu