jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (02/02/90)
Richard Young <bnrmtl!spock@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> asks: My question: How much of the distribution needs to be re-compiled to support this new architecture. My instinct tells me that only ./mit/server and ./mit/extensions/server are affected, but I have been wrong before... If you view the distribution as the following three parts: /usr/bin/X11 /usr/lib/X11 /usr/lib/lib*X* Then the first two are the ones you need to recompile. Which brings me to my current beef: "make install" does way more work than it needs to. In particular, every time you run it, it will "install -c" nearly everything (all the header files and fonts, the binaries and the libraries -- not sure if that leaves anything left) -- that is, there are no checks to see if these files have changed before installing. Bummer. /jordan
jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (02/06/90)
In article <9002012353.AA24393@Morgan.COM> I write: >If you view the distribution as the following three parts: > > /usr/bin/X11 > /usr/lib/X11 > /usr/lib/lib*X* > >Then the first two are the ones you need to recompile. I mean ... parts 1 and 3 ... sigh! /jordan
stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) (02/06/90)
In article <9002012353.AA24393@Morgan.COM> jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes: >Which brings me to my current beef: "make install" does way more work >than it needs to. In particular, every time you run it, it will >"install -c" nearly everything (all the header files and fonts, the >binaries and the libraries -- not sure if that leaves anything left) -- >that is, there are no checks to see if these files have changed before >installing. It's worse then that if you want shared libs, the shared part (at least I hope it's just the shared part) gets re-compiled everytime a make install gets done in that lib. Also there is no ranlib for the *.sa.* files. >Bummer. MegaBummer. -- stripes@wam.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Mutitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood Who needs friends when you can sit alone in your room and drink?
hvr@kimba.Sun.COM (Heather Rose) (02/09/90)
In article <1990Feb6.003323.11540@eng.umd.edu> stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) writes: >In article <9002012353.AA24393@Morgan.COM> jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes: >>Which brings me to my current beef: "make install" does way more work >>than it needs to. In particular, every time you run it, it will >>"install -c" nearly everything (all the header files and fonts, the >>binaries and the libraries -- not sure if that leaves anything left) -- >>that is, there are no checks to see if these files have changed before >>installing. >It's worse then that if you want shared libs, the shared part (at least I hope >it's just the shared part) gets re-compiled everytime a make install gets done >in that lib. Also there is no ranlib for the *.sa.* files. I fixed this in the XView version of shared library compiling rules. I still have a few more changes to make, but when done, I'll send it back to MIT. My guess is that the Consortium staff will not want to make any changes until R5...but if anyone is feeling ambitious...the rules will be there. Heather