Robert Steinmetz wrote: > > I have attempted to compile the PCMCIA-CS package and am > getting a lot of warnings and eventually failure. To resolve > some of these I had to; > Add gawk and link it to awk > Remove the chmod link from busybox and install the chmod binary. > I suspect that these modifications would be necessary to compile > any complex package.
It depends on the package. As a test, I compiled mc from source on bare BasicLinux (plus the specified GCC packages) and it worked fine. > I suggest that these changes be added to the next version > of the hard drive install I am reluctant to increase the size of the install-to-HD package. Currently there is room on the two-floppy version of BasicLinux for bas2hd.tgz, go, fips.exe, fdisk.exe and format.com. This enables me to carry a complete installation kit on just two floppies. A couple of weeks ago, I actually created an install-to-HD package that included awk. However, it made the package too big to fit into the available space on the floppy. In the end I decided it was more important to keep the package small. > The additional binaries are not large Gawk is more than 150kb. In the context of BasicLinux, this is large. Only bash and links are larger. For binaries of that size I must decide whether they are worth the space. Most users will use bash and links. Few will use awk. Nevertheless, I have provided awk as an add-on package at the BasicLinux site. > and would fit on almost any imaginable hard drive. The current BasicLinux HD installation is only around 5mb. Even if it were double the size, it could fit on almost any imaginable HD. However, BasicLinux is not meant to be complete -- it is just a foundation upon which different users can add different things. I am trying to leave the user's HD as empty as possible so that he has the maximum space to do whatever he wants. What annoys me about modern distributions is they use a hundred megabytes for a base system (most of which is unnecessary). Most of my HDs are 120mb and 170mb (I even have an 80mb). BasicLinux gives me room on those HD for a DOS partition, a swap partition and a Linux partition with X and Netscape. Try that with any other distribution. Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
