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Date:Mon Apr 10 15:42:54 2003 
Subject:Re: March 10 Changes 
From:john duncan 
Volume-ID:1030410.02 

A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk wrote:
> John,
> Thanks for your two messages (relayed from comp.lang.pop to pop-forum)
> 
> Your second one stated:
> 
>>              I have installed it alright on another Linux machine.
>>  Looks like a problem with NetBSD.
> 
> 
> But this still puzzles me:
> 
> 
>>          Anyone installed linux poplog since March 10 ? I am trying to
>>build it under linux emulation on NetBSD and have a problem with the
>>file C.all/lib/lib/mkimage.p
>>          When run_install unpacks this file the first character on the
>>first line is a full colon not /* as it should be.
> 
> 
> I wonder if this was jsut some sort of transcription error. The online
> version of this file is
> 
> 	http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/src/master/C.all/lib/lib/mkimage.p
> 
> If you have anything that differs from this on your NetBSD system, then
> probably something went wrong when you un-tarred the file. Was it this
> one:
> 	bham-linux-poplog.tar.gz
> 
> It may be worth un-tarring again.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> 
Hi Aaron,
          It is something which is happening when this directory 
../C.all/lib/lib is untarred on NetBSD whether under the Linux emulation
directory or not. I have checked all the files in this directory and it 
only happens to mkimage.p
          I have downloaded the tarball with a few different programs
and the behaviour is the same, the timestamp of mkimage.p is changed
so the system is rewriting this first character.
          I will play with this further before I give in and mount my
Debian partition and try copying over /usr/local/poplog to NetBSD.
                                All the best,
                                     John Duncan