Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!world!unixland!bill From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Compiling AKCL on SYSVR3 Unix (Esix) System (LONG) Message-ID: <1991Feb2.150454.20218@unixland.uucp> Date: 2 Feb 91 15:04:54 GMT References: <1991Feb1.033347.10652@unixland.uucp> Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix Lines: 21 In article tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) writes: > > [problems installing AKCL under SVR3; compilation aborts with > some bizarre error message] > >From memory (I installed AKCL a couple of years ago): these kinds of >strange errors can happen when the relative dates on the distribution >are wrong. If you unpacked AKCL before unpacking the KCL distribution, >and you did not allow/instruct tar (depending on your version of tar) >to set the file dates correctly, most change files will be older than >their corresponding source files and will not get applied. I just went thru and 'touch'ed all of the files in the akcl directory, so they would definitely be newer than the files in the kcl direcotry, and the compile aborted the same way. Strange, eh! -- home: ...!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill bill@unixland.uucp Public Access Unix - Esix SYSVR3 508-655-3848(12/24) 508-651-8723(12/24/96-HST) 508-651-8733(12/24/96-PEP-V32) other: heiser@world.std.com