On Fri Dec 1 16:20:53 2000, jamagallon@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 01:13:34 Jonathan Lim wrote:
> > > bzip2 is not widely available on IRIX machines, so I don't think this
> > > should be the default action. Maybe an option ...
> >
> > Agreed.
>
> Do I cut the patch or do it yourself ? (I understand it is too Mandrake
> specific)
Let me think about it a bit first.
> But that should be changed. If you port a package, you have to make the
> package behave like a Linux package, not perturb the standard linux file
> system to make it look like an SGI.
>
> If not, you can end like Microsoft puttin DLLs inside an SGI to run XSI.
Speaking of Microsoft, someone recently submitted a whole lot of changes to get
things to work on Windows. I haven't even begun to look into it yet, have you?
Jonathan Lim _ Silicon Graphics _ Mountain View
GPS Graphics Computer Systems CA, USA
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