Alex deVries wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Leon Verrall wrote:
> >
> > FInally got rid of the "Warning, unable to open console" message. I think I
> > managed it by not letting IRIX anywhere near the tarball of hard hat.
> > Downloaded and extracted entirely on Debian Linux.
>
> This is really weird. Can you explain in greater detail what you changed
> to make sure that it worked?
I found that IRIX's tar wasn't very careful with modification dates,
which I don't think is a problem, but the major and minor IDs of the
dev files were all zero -- clearly broken. I haven't experimented,
but I believe this to be the failure.
-r
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