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Re: A Neophyte asks a really dumb question

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From: Dave Olson
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:31
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In <C1A4wM.1s8@ie.utoronto.ca> garym@ie.utoronto.ca (Gary Murphy) writes:

| This is probably something _really_ simple, something I may even find
| if I poke around some more this weekend, but considering the
| importance and the impending weekend, you can imagine why I might
| ask here :-)
| 
| I recently upgraded my 4d/310 to 4.0.1 and then to 4.0.5  In the
| process, my outgoing mail won't, but that is minor compared to having
| lost my C compiler --- I can find the cpp, the lib's, the includes,
| but nothing resembling a compiler :-(  When I run 'versions' I see
| C listed in the list of installed items, and on checking on another
| IRIS, I found 'cc' was a softlink to a file named 'device', but again,
| in the wake of this upgrade, I can't find anything even remotely
| similar to link to 'cc'.

Sounds to me like somebody manually removed some files, or that
some errors occurred during the upgrade that you didn't notice.
Do you have /usr/lib/driver (not device)?  That is what cc is
symlinked to (as ../lib/driver).  How about /usr/lib/*ccom?
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
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