From: bjl@loki.research.ptt.nl (Ben Lippolt) Subject: Re: Installing gcc Date: 5 Sep 1992 10:41:34 GMT
duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
>Excuse me for sounding so ignorant but I'm really stumped here. I want to
>install gcc 2.2.2d but the install script is asking me for files which are
>longer than 14 characters (2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z for example). Am I missing
>something here or is it now possible to have filenames longer than 14
>characters? If the latter is true, how do I do this?
Oops, I hope you don't start a flame war here :-).
But seriously; you can have file names longer than 14 chars, but you'll
need the 'extended filesystem' (extfs for short). Officially 'extfs'
is still alpha, but I use it for all my partitions for some time now. It
is quite stable, but you have to 'fsck' regularly.
If you still use the minix fs, you can't have filenames > 14. But this is
not a problem when installing GCC. The kernel automatically chops off
all characters > 14. So even if your real filename is 2.2.2dmisc.tar
and in the install script it is 2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z there should be no problem.
(try "ls 2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z" in the directory where you keep '2.2.2dmisc.tar')
Ben Lippolt