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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!easix!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: 386BSD Interim Release Status Information Keywords: patchkit, 0.2, References: <1993Apr25.060340.14059@coe.montana.edu> Organization: Andreas Klemm, D-4040 Neuss 21 Date: Sun, 2 May 93 11:04:50 GMT Message-ID: <1993May2.110450.4354@knobel.GUN.de> Lines: 38 In <1993Apr25.060340.14059@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: |These are what I consider to be the goals and purpose of the 386BSD |interim release. |1) To update any software for which a newer version currently exists. | An example of this would be groff, which has gone from version 1.01 | to 1.08. Good idea. Do you want to upgrade the sources in the /usr/src directory tree directly so that the sources of groff-1.08 go into /usr/src/usr.bin/groff ? Or do you want to make up a new directory tree to preserve the original sources of 386BSD 0.1 as being "released" by Wialliam Jolitz ? I think let's discuss it first or am I going to much in detail ? |3) To ensure that the entire 386BSD source tree can be compiled with | either gcc1 (the currently supplied version) or gcc2, depending on the | user's preference. Do you have already the patches that are necessary, to compile 386bsd with gcc-2.3.3. I know about 2 different sources/methods. One needs to compile gcc-2.3.3 with the pragma pack stuff enabled (which I use with patchkit 0.2.2 with success) the other needs not touching gcc's configuration. If you need those patches, let me know. |7) Provide an updated release of 386BSD for new users, one that does | not require the immediate application of potentially hundreds of | patches. This is welcome. And it's fine that you want to help us in migrating to 386BSD 0.2. -- ////// Andreas Klemm \\\\\\ /////// andreas@knobel.GUN.de \\\\\\\ private : +49 2137 12609 D-4040 Neuss 21 (Norf), Germany at work : +49 2173 3964 161 Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Telefax : +49 2173 3964 222 Abteilung Unix Support, D-4019 Monheim