[M3devel] Getting ready for new users (Re: HEADS UP: Release engineering)

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> Quoting Jay <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:
> 
> >
> >I tested the LINUXLIBC6 archive and it installed ok, no prompting.
> >
> >I ran it with no parameters -- unlike Henrik. It did mention the   
> >current working directory (or its directory, same thing) as the   
> >install source, which confused me. Probably as long as system.tgz   
> >exists where it expects, it shouldn't say anything.
> 
> Strange.
> 
> Hendrik, can you reproduce the strange message? And then perhaps
> provide a system call trace (ktrace, truss, whatever)?

No.  I have not been able to reproduce it.  Tried three times:
 (1) with the existing preexisting incomplete /usr/local/cm3, and no 
references to any cm3 stuff in $PATH
 (2) without any /usr/local/cm3 (I used rm -r to erase it), and no 
references to any cm3 stuff ini $PATH
 (3) witout any /usr/local/cm3, and a reference to bin within the 
unpacked ancient cm3-min archive in my $PATH (which is how is was when I 
first got the message).  (And this is how I've cm3-min to compile and 
run even though its installation failed as reported here long ago) 

All these installations were from the same ~hendrik/cm3 directory 
resulting from the archive I had unpacked a while ago when I got the 
strange message.  I haven't downloaded a new archive since then.  Maybe 
I should retry creating a new unpacked archive every time?  Or should I 
just give up?

-- hendrik