Re: tlug: ccp

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > You can always use TL's egcs 1.1.1 RPMs (in the 3.0 updates dir on
> > ftp.pht.com) as well.  they work :)
> 
> Or, if one is tired of getting screwed over by faulty packages, one can
> compile egcs on a known good box, tar up the build hierarchy, move it to
> the target box, and 'make install'.

dangerous, by the way.  only if the shared libraries are identical on the
two systems is this safe, and 'make install' doesn't usually give you a
way to back out safely, whereas an RPM can be uninstalled. (and then
replaced with the old, at-least-it-works-sometimes RPM packages) :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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