From: James Henrickson (ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu)
Date: 09/05/92


From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: Re: apologies, but I still need a little help
Date: 6 Sep 1992 01:09:54 GMT

In article <186qb2INNai1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:

[ A bunch of stuff deleted. ]

>According to FAQ.GCC, README, and 2.2.2d.release, I have everything I need
>here in the rot dir. I put the kernel sources under /usr/src/linux and I even
>went ahead and uncompressed and untared 0.97pl1inc.tar.Z (aka0971inc.tar.Z on
>my drive) and put it in /usr/src/linux.
>
>Now the docs say execute the following command, which fails and I get
>the following error message.
>
>sh install.2.x -v 2.2.2d /usr/src/linux
>
>:command not found
>'yntax error near '()
>'nstall.2.x:5: 'kernelstuff()
>
>So now I ask, what do I have to do??? I want to install GCC the "right way"
>but it never works. The process I described in a previous post
>"WANT GCC??? IGNORE README AND FAQ. READ THIS FIRST!!!!" worked
>and gave me a compiler of unknown performance.

It would help if you had "make" and an editor. Then you'd have a compiler
of "known" performance.

>SO NOW I ASK, NOW THAT I HAVE FOLLOWED ALL THE DOCS, WHAT SHOULD I DO?????
>I appreciate any info that you can send.

Are you using the right shell? THAT is in the docs, too. I use bash, with
a symbolic like to sh so I can use regular shell scripts. BTW, zsh is in
the GCC directory for a reason (hint, hint). :-)

-- 
Jim H.
*
* James L. Henrickson
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