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From: fortinp@bcars223.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin)
Subject: Upgrading ST MINIX from PH V1.1
Message-ID: <1990Jun7.004108.19487@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 90 00:41:08 GMT

This is mainly directed at Frans...

I have been trying to upgrade my vanilla PH ST1.1 MINIX in what spare 
time I can find in the wee hours of some mornings (just before going to
bed).  Besides an earlier posting about missing sed.c which you later 
corrected, I am having the following problems:
 
  (my process has been to apply the PC1.5.0 and ST1.5.0 upgrades to get
   to ST1.5.0; I have only compiled libc.a to date)

  There are no sources (that I can find) on any of the 1.5.x upgrades,
  PC1.4 upgrades, ST1.1FIX upgrades or the original PH ST1.1 diskettes for:

  ar.c         at.c          atrun.c         cc.c           fdisk.c
  libpack.c    libupack.c    lorder.c        readclock.c    tsort.c
  bawk/*       de/*          dis88/* [OK]    ic/*           indent/*
  kermit/*     m4/*          nroff/*         zmodem/*

  These are the result of checking the 1.5.0 crc lists.  I have not (nor
  do I want to at this time) proceeded to 1.5.1+ until I can resolve these
  discrepancies.

  Also, when I try to compile some modules (like patch & make), I get the 
  *.o files, but the linker always fails with undefined labels whether I 
  use the original PH V1.1 or recompiled 1.5.0 versions of libc.a.

Any suggestions?  I am in no particular hurry; I am more interested in 
proceeding in a fashion which is reproducible (i.e., not relying on outside
sources for sources, fixes, etc.)  I am trying to do the upgrade strictly
with the original sources and official postings.

Thanks,
Pierre Fortin
fortinp@bnr.ca

P.S.:  I'll be away for 1.5 weeks with no access to the net and my news
       gateway ages articles in 3-4 days, so feel free to take your time
       responding (I'd hate to miss your answers).  I suppose I could ftp
       the acrchived messages from vm1.nodak.edu if it is still archiving(?).