Subject: Elvis spotted on Linux! Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 14:32:50 EST From: "Christian J. Darken" <darken-christian@CS.YALE.EDU>
I compiled elvis version 1.4 (a vi clone) under Linux today without
difficulties. I used the System V settings in the makefile, with the
following changes:
CC= gcc
EXTRA= tinytcap$O
LIBS=
PR2=
elvis v.1.4 is available from nic.funet.fi (/pub/gnu)
aeneas.mit.edu (/pub/gnu) cs.uni-sb.de (/gnu) and other
fine ftp sites near you.
I have some questions for you fellow linux fans out there:
First of all, by way of introduction, I am running Linux on
a 386DX 25MHz clone on a small partition (20M) of an IDE disk.
I don't have MINIX.
1) mv doesn't seem to move directories properly. It looks for
something called mvdir and dies. I want to fix this right away,
so I'm goin to start working on it unless one of you drops me a
line and explains what stupid thing I've done.
2) When recompiling the kernel, the makefile looks for chmem and
gar. Since the resulting image seems to work, I suppose these
things aren't necessary. But what are they? I'm curious.
3) Lately when I boot linux (with the hard drive as the root
device) I get the message "child 2 died with code 0000"
(or something of the sort). What process was child 2? Should
I be worried? Everything seems to work fine.
Thanks folks.
Chris
darken@cs.yale.edu