pr@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.UK (Peter Robinson) (02/11/89)
Summary: Is the revised sg for Ultrix 2.2 only available as binary? References: <8902041633.AA04521@EXPIRE.LCS.MIT.EDU> As advised on xpert, I picked up the new sg.o from the xstuff server. However, the person trying to build a new Unix observed that all three of - the standard distributed binary - the result of compiling the distributed source - the binary from xstuff are non-trivially different. He also expressed some reservations about splicing an arbitrary and unrecognisable bit pattern into the middle of a Unix kernel (:-), but tried it anyway and it does not seem to work. It gets as far as printing the Worksystem banner and then stops. The disc still chatters occassionally, but the system does not respond to the console or rlogins. It may be possible to reverse-engineer the changes, but obviously it would help if we could get hold of source or source diffs. I checked the index for etc on xstuff and could not see anything obvious; might you be able to release the diffs? - Peter Robinson.
converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Donna Converse) (02/11/89)
> Summary: Is the revised sg for Ultrix 2.2 only available as binary? Yes. > .. it does not seem to work I can only think of stupid mistakes: the file from the xstuff server should be uudecoded on the target machine, 29946 bytes. ?
maj@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.UK (Martyn Johnson) (02/13/89)
> > Summary: Is the revised sg for Ultrix 2.2 only available as binary? > Yes. > > .. it does not seem to work Local changes to the header buf.h affect the compiled code sg.o; this could be the reason that the binary from "xstuff" does not work. Trying to build kernels out of binaries compiled against different headers is a waste of time.