From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: Two questions Date: 22 Jul 1992 10:46:10 GMT
In article <1992Jul20.034523.19524@athena.mit.edu> chchen@stat.fsu.edu writes:
>
> 1. I am using the MCC-interim version. If I want to upgrtade, is it
> necessary that I need the MCCed kernel or I can just grab the kernel
> sources from Linus and compile it directly? Someone said that the system
> can be 'mixed'. So can I just use commands like PAX on the MCC one?
The MCC interim versions of Linux are just collections of software;
you can add programs from anywhere or recompile the kernel or whatever.
The main caution is this: Most of the executable binaries distributed
as part of the MCC interim versions use shared libraries which are
installed from the utilities disk. You need to keep these shared
libraries unless all binaries linked with them are replaced. Naturally,
each new MCC release replaces all the binaries from the previous releases,
so this affects only files which you compile yourself or get from some
other source.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk