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

[John E. Malmberg]

On 10/24/2016 1:48 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> 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?

> 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.

Who cares what PCSI thinks.  It would populate a logical disk image that 
you can use where needed.

> 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.

The logical disk only needs to be privately mounted for the install.

I think you can mark the container file read-only for others to mount as 
needed on their cluster nodes.

I do not think you can mount a logical disk clusterwide, but as long as 
it is a read-only volume, I would expect that each cluster could mount it.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work