Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 06:08:43PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> Andreas, I took your name off the addressee list to avoid duplication.  

Thanks.

> [KSB] I agree that we should target Unstable first.  Note that the  
> bootstrap requires a release of GT.M, not the current release of GT.M  
> (again like gcc bootstrapping - you can use an old release of gcc to  
> compile a new release of gcc).

OK.

> [KSB] Actually, /usr/lib/fis-gtm/<version>/gtm is a shell script that you 
> can run to execute GT.M, and /usr/lib/fis-gtm/<version> is the directory  
> that contains the entire release.  The actual executable binary file is  
> called mumps.  There are other binaries as well, the most important of  
> which are mupip, dse and lke.

Thanks for the explanation.

> Now that I think of it, there is a file that can be sourced to set up  
> environment variables /usr/lib/fis-gtm/<version>/gtmprofile.  Perhaps  
> there should be a directory /etc/fis-gtm/<version>/gtmprofile which is a  
> relative symbolic link to /usr/lib/fis-gtm/<version>/gtmprofile.

Under Debian it is the other way around:  The configuration file has to
be in /etc/fis-gtm/... and you link from /usr/... to this - but that's a
detail.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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