Bob,
Thanks for your reply. Actually I don't think details of MacOS itself
matter very much. In this case I am using it at the Unix level, using
xterm.
The Mac windows interface runs on top of the Darwin Unix kernel. At
xterm
level, much of the available set of commands seems to
Ellis N. Thomas wrote:
As I said before: The different effect for this Mac version might
or might not be of relevance to Gnu developers!.
You would be surprised. Most of us have spent a large portion of our
lives porting software from one platform to another! :-)
If it would
Ellis N. Thomas wrote:
As you have appreciated, I seem to have been caught in a can't do
this until you have done that sequence! But I now seem ready to
proceed with building gcc.
Not to stop someone from working the problem and doing a good job of
it but it might be easier to simply
Alan,
Many thanks for your rapid and sympathetic reply.
One or two points about what you said embedded in parts of your reply
starting below.
As you have appreciated, I seem to have been caught in a can't do
this until you have done that sequence! But I now seem ready
Notes on installation of coreutils 8.13
To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
1. Introduction
The purpose of this feedback is to notify some difficulties encountered
with coreutils. As explained below, the release used was NOT the
latest, so it
is quite likely that these matters have
Ellis N. Thomas writes:
Notes on installation of coreutils 8.13
Thanks for writing up your experience. Even though it's mostly a series of
bad choices, they were choices that only an outsider would make, so they do
reveal things that the insiders haven't thought of.
System
