wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) (07/03/90)
Two separate notes here, 1.3->1.5 woes and LHARC announcement. After only two attempts, I managed to finish the important bits of the upgrade from PH 1.3 to 1.5.10 from plains.nodak.edu. I upgraded the include directories first (a seeming prerequisite to anything else), then compiled all the library routines and got a working draftc.a. Then it happenned: lorder <draftc.a >draftc.lorder make: lorder return error 240 (Ignored) tsort <draftc.lorder >draftc.tsort make: tsort return error 32478 make: aborted I've never seen error's in the 32000's before! It must be pretty DARN serious. :-) (Note that the numbers quoted above are paraphrased, they're different depending on whether they occur in make, on the command line or in a command script. But they tsort one was definitely in the 5-digit range.) draftc.a is about 114K, but lorder produced draftc.lorder only 14K long, and then tsort seemed choke on it. I have subsequently recompiled make, sh, paste, tsort (yes the 1.5.9 version), lorder and anything else used in "Makefile.lib_ibm", to no avail. I've even recompiled mm,fs,kernel, etc to make a full 1.5 boot disk using the multiple draftc.a method. So I'm now running 1.5 but without a libc.a, and trudging my way through re-compiling everything else with multiple draftc.a's. Did anyone else have this problem? HELP! Also, in a (hopefully) unrelated note, start.s is not recognizing my CPU as a 286, and thus readclock thinks I'm an 8088 and returns '-q' rather than a date. This is a minor annoyance for now. I don't know any 80x86 assembly (yet), so I can't figure out what's wrong with the function "get_processor()". ------------------------------------------- Announcement: LHARC now available for Minix! YES! Now you too can have a *real* compression utility on your Minix system. Well, OK, "real" is a subjective term. It doesn't accept pipe input. However it's compression ratios are second to none. It'll blow away 13-bit compress AND 16-bit compress. Anyway, for the nitty-gritty details: the 1.3-1.5 upgrade kit on plains.nodak.edu is ~4.5 meg uncompressed. With our 13-bit compress it's about 2.4 Meg. 16-bit compress gets it to about 2.0 Meg. LHARC gets it down to -- are you sitting down? -- 1.6 Meg!!! The one drawback is that it's about 1/2 to 1/4 the speed of compress, but I think it's well worth the wait. This version of LHARC works with full UNIX directories and permissions. I'll be uploading it in a few days.. be patient... NO PUSHING... :-) -- Mathematics: That branch of Human Thought which takes a finite set of trivial axioms and maps them to a countably infinite set of unintuitive theorems. Wayne Hayes INTERNET: wayne@csri.utoronto.ca CompuServe: 72401,3525