Re: FVWM: Re: Installation of fvwm under Irix5.3

From: Rich Scott <rxscot2_at_lookout.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:39:46 -0700 (MST)

Maybe Roger is referring to the 'bsdinst' command on the SGI?

If it helps, SGI's Irix (I'm speaking of Irix 5.x) comes with two
installation commands:

1) /sbin/install, which is a System-V-style-install, e.g.

        install -f destdir -m 755 -u user -g group filename

2) /usr/bin/X11/bsdinst, which is a (surprise) BSD-compatible install:

        install -cs -m 755 -u root -g bin filename destdir

   SGI states that bsdinst is actually a wrapper to their System V
   install.

You may want to just grab a copy of 'install.sh' from the current X11R6
source distribution (it's in xc/config/util/install.sh), although being
a shell script, it's pretty slow compared to the C code versions.
Probably there are several BSD/Linux/GNU versions written in C available
on the Net.

  =rich

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Rich Scott	DMP/MAE 	USWest Technologies, Denver, CO
<rxscot2_at_lookout.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
Charles Hines wrote:
|Roger> I have a simple question, how do you replace the bindist command.
|Roger> I know it does a cp -p of some sort but I'd like to know the exact
|Roger> sequence.
|
|Simple for you perhaps, but I have no clue what the bindist command
|is.  I'm assuming that it's an Irix specific command, as I can't find
|it under AIX.
|
|Roger> I'm thinking of replacing 4Dwm on my Indigo to recuparate about
|Roger> 1.0MB.
|
|Well, you should be able to do that, as I believe others have.
|Unfortunately, not having access to an SGI machine, I don't have any
|clue about what specific oddities you have to do to replace 4Dwm.
|
|Can anyone else on the list help Roger?  If there is something special
|that needs to be done for this I'll add it to the FAQ.
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Received on Mon Jan 15 1996 - 12:41:12 GMT