Re: wierd scenes inside the gold mine

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com> writes:

    Jim> The binary I found was make-3.74.bin.ELF.tar.gz, but I'm
    Jim> already running:

    Jim> wormhole:# make --version
    Jim> GNU Make version 3.74, by --snip--

    Jim> Is there a later one?

Yes, there is.  Unfortunately, they do not distinguish themselves by
where and when built when you do "make -version".  I don't recall
whether there was even a patch or if it was just a question of linking
with the right libraries.  Here's a relevant directory listing:

file://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/Linux/sunsite-linux/devel/make:
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpadmin ftp     604 Jan  2  1996 make-3.74-direntfix-elf.lsm
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpadmin ftp  100212 Jan  2  1996 make-3.74-direntfix-elf.tgz
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpadmin ftp     567 Jun  1  1995 make-3.74.bin.ELF.lsm
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpadmin ftp  157378 Jun  1  1995 make-3.74.bin.ELF.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpadmin ftp     545 Jan  2  1996 make-3.74.patched.lsm
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpadmin ftp  521683 Jan  2  1996 make-3.74.patched.tar.gz

Note the dates: the ones you want are the new ones.  The "direntfix"
files are the binaries, the "patched" files are the sources.  (*.lsm
files are "Linux Software Map" files.  They explain what a file is and
how it is used.  It's useful for distinguishing among multiple
versions of a single application.  Eg, for networking, there are often
TCP/IP, term, and SLIRC versions of a given program.  In ftp, "get
file.lsm |less" is very useful; if you do your FTP by Netscape, of
course you can just click on it.)  My guess is that "direntfix" does
not contain the documentation, so I would recommend getting BOTH
make-3.74.bin.ELF.tar.gz AND make-3.74-direntfix-elf.tgz, and doing

# su; cd /
# tar xvzf make-3.74.bin.ELF.tar.gz    # install bad binary and docs
# tar xvzf make-3.74-direntfix-elf.tgz # overwrite bad with fixed binary
# exit

Good luck.  Or maybe you should make some luck and do a "tar tzf" on
those tar files first.  (I'm pretty sure that they unpack correctly
from "/", but you ought to check.)

Steve

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                           Stephen John Turnbull
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Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences  http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/
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