From: mdgauthi@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Ah) Subject: Re: Help upgrading GCC Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 11:42:12 EST
In article <sens.76.732327356@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU> sens@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Sunando Sen) writes:
>> If I'm not mistaken the files under tsx-11 for GCC are compressed
>>with something called gzip. If this is the case how can I use gzip to
>>uncompress them. (I tried installing gzip but it complains about libc.so.4
>>missing. Unfortunatly, it looks like libc.so.4 should be in image-4.3.tar.z
>>which would appear to have been helpfully gzipped by someone. Any help on
>>this. I need to finish this upgrade real soon now :)
>>
>This is a chicken and egg problem! If you have a working copy of gcc, you
>can get the gzip source from prep.ai.mit.edu, it compiles out of the box.
>There is also a dos executable in the same site, which you can use to
>extract the gzipped file. From now on, you should either keep a copy of
>gzip linked statically, or get the root/base/lib/gcc disks by H. J. Liu.
>(Actually, I just remembered that the disk images of hlu are also gzipped,
>so only the first advice is relevant). Hope this helps.
Yes. I just found the dos executable myself and did it that way. Although,
something needs to be done about the whole unpleasant situation :)
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