Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!ncar!umigw!ibiza!aem From: aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Installing GCC Keywords: GCC Message-ID: <633@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> Date: 13 Aug 89 12:14:05 GMT References: <1989Aug13.013311.15692@sj.ate.slb.com> Sender: news@umigw.MIAMI.EDU Reply-To: aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu Lines: 18 enk@corona (Edan Kabatchnik) writes: > If any of you out there are trying to install GCC from the distributions >found in the /pub/gnu directory on apple.com, I have a word of advice: the >file 'gcc-1.35.aux.bin.Z' is actually a tar file. Moreover, the instructions >that come with the distribution don't make this clear. If Apple would >rename the file to gcc-1.35.aux.bin.tar.Z (or at least make it clear in the >installation documentation that its), everyone would have an easier time >bringing GCC up on their A/UX machine. Someone else complained about that as well. Apple *should've* noted that in the README. One thing that annoyed me when ftp from apple was the length of the names. Instead of doing an 'mget *', I had to do each individual file renaming it to something unique for 14 characters. aem a.e.mossberg - aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu/aem@umiami.BITNET - Pahayokee Bioregion I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth