Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 15 Jun 1996 15:00:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Ethan Emeson <> | Subject | Re: more make help |
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Oops!! Thankyou for so gently pointing me towards the obvious. Although I guess the question remains, just how obvious this solution will be to how many people? I think I may have been "blinded" to linux/Documentation/ by my use of 30-40 dev kernels, where the documentation was not neccessarily in sync (i.e. I simply began to expect to see undocumented bugs). I think a PROMINENT pointer to linux/Documentation/Changes from the top-level README would help curtail (my) sort of inquiries- or indeed- a simple "READTHISFIRST" at the top level might be most direct.
On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Mark E. Levitt wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Ethan Emeson wrote: > > programmer (an absent symlink?)- Sorry.. But the moral of the story > > highlights the need for a frequently updated FAQ covering "recent" > > bugs/problems (I STILL see folks asking about the ps -aux floating point > > exception!). Ethan > > I think this message highlights a problem that we are going to face > more and more frequently as more people upgrade to 2.0 > > Ethen, documentation for the make problem and the ps -aux problem > ALREADY exists. It's in the directory, > usr/src/linux/Documentation. Obviously, you and many other didn't > see/read the file named Changes, which explains all the problems people > may have when they upgrade. > > So, what can be done to make it clearer for people that they need to > read this file? Ethen, what specifically would have made it clearer to > you where this information was? > > Should the file be named something else? Is "Changes" too obscure? > Should it be in the top level directory? > > Seriously, Ethan, what would have tipped you off to look at the file? > Did you look in the Documentation directory? > > Perhaps the file "Changes" should be renamed to "READTHISFIRST"? > > Any ideas people? > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Mark E. Levitt > Department of Speech Communication, Syracuse University > E-mail: melevitt@syr.edu > Home Page: http://web.syr.edu/~melevitt > > PGP fingerprint = B8 A3 AA A6 0F 83 9A BE F2 7A 19 F9 15 79 FE A4 > Public key available from http://web.syr.edu/~melevitt/pgpkey.html > ____________________________________________________________________ > > >
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