[Info-vax] Installing and using GNV - some feedback and questions

[John Reagan]

On Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 2:49:53 PM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 10/23/16 11:50 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
> > It looks like some of my comments may be based on my wrong belief that
> > the updated tools could be used without installing the base kit.
> 
> They can. I believe John Reagan said he did the LLVM port without
> installing the base GNV kit. But some of what you're looking for may be
> missing.

That is incorrect. I "installed" the base kit and a bunch of the updates.

What I do differently is I want a "local-to-me" kit.  I don't have privs on our cluster and I don't want to do a system-wide install.  All that psx$root stuff isn't important to me.  However, PCSI kits are inherently system-wide.  Some products have some ability for multiple versions but you still need to be priv'd to install BASIC for example.  So manually expand the PCSI file, look at the PCSI description file and assorted command files and attempt to recreate the kit on the side in some DISK:[JREAGAN.GNV.BIN], [JREAGAN.GNV.USR.BIN], etc. tree.  There are several SET FILE /ENTERs that need to be performed as well.