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Date:Mon Mar 12 14:26:09 2001 
Subject:Re: Installing poplog: some bugs and some thoughts 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1010312.07 

ug55aes@cs.bham.ac.uk wrote:

>         echo "Poplog needs either the csh (or tcsh) shell in order to run."

Is this true?  Not that I think many people run linux systems without
csh, but it seems a funny dependency to have.

> if [ -e /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 ] && [ -e /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 ]; then
>     if [ -e /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so ] && [ -e /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so 

Don't you want to check that the files are linked, rather than just that
they both exist?

I think the next line has a typo and you meant MOTIF rather than X11.
> if [ $X11_LINKS_NEEDED == 1 ]; then
>         echo
>         echo 'Making poplog-specific symbolic links for Motif...'
>         echo 'doing: ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so'
>         echo 'DEBUG: ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so'
>         echo

>             echo "*WARNING* popcd.tar is a 30MB file *WARNING*"
>             echo "It will take at least an hour and a half to download over a modem."

What is popcd.tar?  I don't have it, so I don't know what I'm missing,
but it doesn't appear to be essential for running the poplog in
linux1553.tar.gz.  Given its size, why isn't it compressed?

Steve