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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Installing PC 1.5.3
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Date: 23 Feb 90 14:00:08 GMT
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In article <11884@nigel.udel.EDU> bunnell@henry.asel.udel.edu (Tim Bunnell) writes:
>To my considerable surprise, under 1.5.3 the command:
>
>	ar q libc.a 'lorder *.s | tsort'
>
I cheated.  tsort is a wholly new program, unrelated to the old one.


> Are we to rebuild the boot image and kernel using
>the old kernel + new fs-mm-tools, or wait for the new kernel before taking
>that step?
Rebuild using the new fs, new mm, new tools and old kernel.  The new kernel
will follow soon.  

I am already busy with 1.5.4.  Fortunately it is definitely
converging.  The differences between 1.5.4 and 1.5.3 so far are all very small
bug fixes.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)