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+LINUX_UPTODATE - "Keep your Linux system up to date".
+
+For comments, fixed, etc write to
+Alessandro Sigala <ssigala@globalnet.it>
+
+Last updated: 11 Apr 1996.
+
+This short document describe what you need and where to get
+most of the new stuff for your Linux box (intended for systems that have
+already upgraded to ELF binaries).
+
+The ftp site mainly used in this document is sunsite.unc.edu.
+
+The current releases of the linux software are:
+Linux Kernel 1.3.xx :-)
+Kernel modules 1.3.57
+PPP daemon 2.2.0e
+Binutils 2.6.0.12
+Dynamic linker (ld.so) 1.7.14
+Linux C Library 5.3.9
+Linux C++ Library 2.7.1.4
+Termcap 2.0.7
+GNU CC 2.7.2
+Procps 0.99a
+
+What do you really need to upgrade for using the latest 1.3.x kernel:
+- Modules 1.3.57 for using the kernel modules
+- Procps 0.99a 	 for using free, ps, pstree, top and friends
+- PPP 2.2.0e     for using pppd, pppstats, pppon, etc
+
+This document may also be useful to answer the questions like:
+
+* Q: 'free' displays some strange lines
+  A: upgrade the procps package
+
+* Q: 'pppd' displays "the PPP protocol is not available"
+  A: upgrade the PPP package
+
+... and so :)
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+** NOTES
+
+- Take a look at the documentation that come with every package
+  before doing anything!
+
+- All the installation operation must be done as root.
+
+- If you want to use the latest GCC release (2.7.2) you must upgrade
+  your C Library, the C++ Library, the dynamic linker and the binutils.
+
+- After installed any new library, run the program `ldconfig' to update
+  the dynamic linker cache (you may also need to modify the file
+  /etc/ld.so.conf).
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* The dynamic linker.
+
+Get the file ld.so-1.7.14.tar.gz and unpack into a directory. You should
+have no problem installing this package, simply cd into the package
+directory and type `make install'.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* The Linux C Library.
+
+*** NOTE: read the release.libc-5.3.9 file before installing the
+          libraries!
+
+Get the libc-5.3.9.bin.tar.gz file and unpack into the root directory
+
+i.e. into the root directory type:
+
+  tar xvfz libc-5.3.9.bin.tar.gz
+
+you also need to make the symbolic links to the new library into the /lib
+directory
+
+i.e. into the /lib directory type:
+
+  rm -f libc.so.5
+  sln libc.so.5.3.9 libc.so.5
+  rm -f libm.so.5
+  sln libm.so.5.0.5 libm.so.5
+
+*** Note 1:
+
+<cutted from release.libc-5.3.9>
+
+The structure DIR, defined in sysdeps/linux/dirstream.h, was changed in
+release 5.2.0.  If you upgrade from release 5.1.4 or earlier to release
+5.2.0 or later, you must reboot after installing the new libraries.
+
+*** Note 2:
+
+You must patch and recompile your GNU 'make' utility!
+
+<cutted from release.libc-5.3.9>
+
+A dirent bug, which erroneously defined d->reclen to d->namlen if USE_GNU
+was defined, has been fixed.  Unfortunately, some GNU packages depend on
+this bug.  GNU make 3.xx is one of them.  A patch is included here.
+
+here the patch:
+RCS file: /home/cvs/gnu/make/dir.c,v
+retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
+diff -c -r1.1.1.1 dir.c
+*** 1.1.1.1	1995/06/25 03:27:16
+--- dir.c	1995/06/25 03:55:22
+***************
+*** 20,26 ****
+  
+  #if	defined (POSIX) || defined (HAVE_DIRENT_H) || defined (__GNU_LIBRARY__)
+  #include <dirent.h>
+! #ifndef	__GNU_LIBRARY__
+  #define D_NAMLEN(d) strlen((d)->d_name)
+  #else	/* GNU C library.  */
+  #define D_NAMLEN(d) ((d)->d_namlen)
+--- 20,26 ----
+  
+  #if	defined (POSIX) || defined (HAVE_DIRENT_H) || defined (__GNU_LIBRARY__)
+  #include <dirent.h>
+! #ifndef	__BAD_GNU_LIBRARY__
+  #define D_NAMLEN(d) strlen((d)->d_name)
+  #else	/* GNU C library.  */
+  #define D_NAMLEN(d) ((d)->d_namlen)
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /home/cvs/gnu/make/glob/glob.c,v
+retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
+diff -c -r1.1.1.1 glob.c
+*** 1.1.1.1	1995/06/25 03:27:18
+--- glob/glob.c	1995/06/25 03:56:01
+***************
+*** 64,70 ****
+  
+  #if	defined (POSIX) || defined (HAVE_DIRENT_H) || defined (__GNU_LIBRARY__)
+  #include <dirent.h>
+! #ifndef	__GNU_LIBRARY__
+  #define D_NAMLEN(d) strlen((d)->d_name)
+  #else	/* GNU C library.  */
+  #define D_NAMLEN(d) ((d)->d_namlen)
+--- 64,70 ----
+  
+  #if	defined (POSIX) || defined (HAVE_DIRENT_H) || defined (__GNU_LIBRARY__)
+  #include <dirent.h>
+! #ifndef	__BAD_GNU_LIBRARY__
+  #define D_NAMLEN(d) strlen((d)->d_name)
+  #else	/* GNU C library.  */
+  #define D_NAMLEN(d) ((d)->d_namlen)
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* The Linux C++ Library.
+
+*** NOTE: read the release.libg++-2.7.1.4 file before installing the
+          libraries!
+
+Get the libg++-2.7.1.4.bin.tar.gz file and unpack into the root directory
+
+i.e. into the root directory type:
+
+  tar xvfz libg++-2.7.1.4.bin.tar.gz
+
+*** NOTE:
+
+You may have troubles with the binaries linked with the old 2.6 libraries
+(for example: umssync), dumping core or doing strange stuff.
+To resolve the problems you need to recompile the sources of the binaries.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* The binutils.
+
+*** NOTE: read the release.binutils-2.6.0.12 file before installing the
+          libraries!
+
+Get the binutils-2.6.0.12.bin.tar.gz file and unpack it into the root
+directory
+
+i.e. into the root directory type:
+
+  tar xvfz binutils-2.6.0.12.bin.tar.gz
+
+*** NOTE:
+
+<cutted from release.binutils-2.6.0.12>
+
+If you don't need the cross assemblers/linkers for m68k-linux,
+m68k-linuxaout, sparc-sun-solaris2, sparc-sun-sunos4.1 nor alpha-linux,
+please do
+
+1. su root
+2. cd /usr
+3. rm -rf m68k-linux m68k-linuxaout sparc-sun-solaris2 sparc-sun-sunos4.1 alpha-linux
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* The GNU CC compiler.
+
+** NOTE: read the release.gcc-2.7.2 file before installing the package!
+
+Get the gcc-2.7.2.bin.tar.gz file and unpack it into the root
+directory
+
+i.e. into the root directory type:
+
+  tar xvfz gcc-2.7.2.bin.tar.gz
+
+You may want to remove the old compiler. Simply cd into the
+/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux and remove the old compiler directory tree.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* The termcap library.
+
+*** NOTE: read first the documentation that come with the package!
+
+Get the file termcap-2.0.7.tar.gz and unpack into a directory. You should
+have no problem installing this package, simply cd into the package
+directory and type `make' then `make install'.
+
+*** NOTE:
+
+<cutted from the README of the package>
+
+The linux entry in the new termcap is larger than 1024 chars.
+But your application may only have a 1024 byte buffer. You may see
+
+tgetent: warning: termcap entry too long
+
+message when you run it in the Linux console. You can pass NULL to
+tgetent () to let termcap malloc the buffer. elm and zsh are two
+applications I know which use termcap and have this problem.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* The kernel modudes utilities.
+
+*** NOTE: read first the documentation that come with the package!
+
+Get the file modules-1.3.57.tar.gz and unpack into a directory. You should
+have no problem installing this package, simply cd into the package
+directory and type `make' then `make install'.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* The PPP daemon utilities.
+
+*** NOTE: read first the documentation that come with the package!
+
+Get the file ppp-2.2.0e.tar.gz and unpack into a directory. You should
+have no problem installing this package, simply cd into the package
+directory and type `make' then `make install'.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* The procps utilities.
+
+*** NOTE: read first the documentation that come with the package!
+
+Get the file procps-0.99a.tar.gz and unpack into a directory. You should
+have no problem installing this package, simply cd into the package
+directory and type `make' then `make install'.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This is where you can find all that is described in this document.
+
+### sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/GCC
+
+binutils-2.6.0.12.bin.tar.gz		Binutils 2.6.0.12 (as,ld etc)
+gcc-2.7.2.bin.tar.gz			GNU CC 2.7.2 (ELF and a.out)
+ld.so-1.7.14.tar.gz			The dynamic linker
+libc-5.3.9.bin.tar.gz			The C library
+libg++-2.7.1.4.bin.tar.gz		The C++ library
+termcap-2.0.7.tar.gz			Termcap 2.0.7
+release.binutils-2.6.0.12
+release.gcc-2.7.2
+release.libc-5.3.9			info (contains the patch for 'make')
+release.libg++-2.7.1.4
+
+### sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel
+
+modules-1.3.57.tar.gz			Utils the kernel modules
+
+### sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Network/serial
+
+ppp-2.2.0e.tar.gz			The pppd daemon and utils for PPP
+
+### sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Status/ps
+
+procps-0.99a.tgz			ps, pstree, free, etc
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+For comments, fixed, etc write to
+Alessandro Sigala <ssigala@globalnet.it>