Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!umn-d-ub!rutgers!att!alberta!ubc-cs!moose.cs.ubc.ca!majka From: majka@moose.cs.ubc.ca (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: MGR installation Message-ID: <484@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 26 Jan 89 01:10:33 GMT Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Reply-To: majka@moose.cs.ubc.ca () Distribution: na Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 49 I picked up mgr from uunet and tried to install it over the last couple of days. There are problems. First, make sure you read all the README files and do the fixes they specify. They are: * fix up all the control characters (see README.FIRST) * cat src/copyright.h.[123456] > src/copyright.h * cat lib/scribe.c.[1234] > lib/scribe.c * uudecode the fonts There are, however, two other bugs which bit me (i.e. they cause make to fail): 1: sys/kbd.c has this silly line (line 23): # include "" This should probably be: #include 2: There is supposed to be a file called doc/usrman.out It doesn't exist. I made an empty one to get make over it, assuming that mgr would run without whatever this document is supposed to be. Make complains of many errors while installing mgr, even with these fixes. All of them are reported with something like: "*** Error code 1: (ignored)" Some of them do look ignorable, but there are mysterious things which look more serious. e.g.: "mv mgr _mgr" fails because the file mgr doesn't exist. "ln mgr mgr" also fails. Thus, even though I got make to run all the way through, mgr was probably in a bad state. This seemed to be indicated further by the fact that running mgr causes a segmentation fault. It will run with -v or -V and print version information, but otherwise it dies without touching the screen. Has anyone out there got fixes for mgr? I would like to try it out (as, I am sure, do many others on the net). An informed posting to the net would be reasonable at this point. Email to me would be appreciated, but perhaps less helpful to other lost soles. BTW, I tried putting mgr on a SUN 3, running SunOS 4.0. I don't believe this is an oddball system. --- Marc Majka - System Manager UBC Computer Science ---