From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: misc questions(gcc2.11, filenames, this group) Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 21:28:43 GMT
In article <1992May21.173525.8512@cs.tu-berlin.de> kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler) writes:
>Some things I'm curious about:
>
> - what do I need to upgrade from gcc2.1 to the latest release(2.11c?) ?
> Do I really have to rebuild all my binaries ?
2.11c-lib.tar.Z
2.11c-misc.tar.Z
Untar these in the appropriate place.
And if you keep the old shared library binaries, you DO NOT have to
rebuild anything.
> - what about that 14-char-filenames-thing ? I looked into
> /usr/src/linux/include/limits.h and found NAME_MAX 255 and
> _POSIX_NAME_MAX 14. My system uses 14 chars. Is it possible to change this?
Yes. You will have to do a new mkfs, and the binary distribution
kernels will not work on your system, you'll have to rebuild them
with the right parameters.
>
> - for something completely different: how do you feel about splitting this
> group ? It becomes rather *impossible* to keep up with all these articles
> written to comp.os.linux. (a few suggestions: c.o.l.X11, c.o.l.compilers,
> c.o.l.archives ...)
Get a threaded news reader at your site, like trn, and you
won't have this problem - just tag the threads you are interested in,
and mark the rest as read.