On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Frank S. Bernhardt wrote:
> I agree; don't do it. It has only been with the 5.0.7 release that SCO has
> been distributing the GNU utilities. Before that we had to buy/use their
> Development system that included 'ar' or we had to roll our own 'ar'. However,
> 5.0.7 users can still purchase the Development system so I think the most that
> should be done is to place a comment in the README or in the Makefile itself
> of the possibility of using gar or ar.
I'll put something into README.
> Which brings up another point. Whenever I have built EXIM under SCO (since v3
> anyway) I've had to adjust in the Local/Makefile the paths of chown and chgrp
> to /bin (from /usr/bin). Should that not be changed in OS/Makefile-SCO?
Sure. I rely on people telling me this kind of stuff, as I can't test on
SCO. Does this apply also to the SCO_SV Makefile?
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