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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/24/16 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.  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.

Thanks for the correction.  Sounds like PCSI needs some work, not just GNV.