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

[John Reagan]

On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 9:32:39 AM UTC-4, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> On 10/24/2016 7:42 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> > 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$root stuff isn't important to me.  However, PCSI kits
> > are inherently system-wide.
> 
> Have you tried using the "/remote" qualifier for PCSI with 
> PCSI$SYSDEVICE and PCSI$SPECIFIC pointed to a personally mounted logical 
> disk?
> 
> Regards,
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.net_work

So PCSI thinks GNV is installed but only accessible from my disk?  That isn't friendly to others on the system who might want to use GNV.

The real story was that we had the base GNV kit installed on some of our machines (but not all). I needed some newer pieces like sed, gawk, make, and grep if I remember.  I just rolled my own.