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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Scott wrote: Buck Calabro 2008-11-23T16:29:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1019 That's the problem with having reinstalled my OS; a lot of my configuration is missing. I typically add /usr/local/lib to ldconfig but had not done that in this incarnation of my system. Adding that cleared up my problem. Now I just need to see if I can find an old copy of my key customization, so I don't have to go through it all over again. :) -- Sean Porterfield This email is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) above and may contain information that is privileged. If you have received this message in error or are not the named recipient(s), please notify the sender immediately and delete this email message from your computer as any and all unauthorized distribution or use of this message is strictly prohibited. Thank you. Porterfield, Sean 2008-11-23T01:41:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1018 You are correct, this is a case of ldconfig not knowing where to find the library. One option that you might consider is using the --prefix argument to ./configure like this: ./configure --prefix=/usr That will install things in /usr instead of /usr/local. Of course, lots of people don't like mixing things they build themselves with what comes with their distribution, so it is up to you. I've found my preferred way to run configure is like this: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib/tn5250 This means I can put a tn5250rc file in /etc that can be used by all users. Everyone has their favorite configuration, this is just mine. James Rich if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond when you're done reading them :) - Paul Davis on ardour-dev James Rich 2008-11-22T05:17:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1017 Thanks for testing these, Brian. Knowing that it builds on multiple distributions is vital. Sometimes I tweak my systems so much that they don't match anything else, so your tests are greatly appreciated. James Rich if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond when you're done reading them :) - Paul Davis on ardour-dev James Rich 2008-11-22T05:13:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1016 We are proud to announce version 0.17.4 of the open source TN5250 emulator. You can download the new release from SourceForge at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net The following are some of the new features in this release: - (Win32 only) added +click_moves_cursor config option. When enabled, clicking the mouse will move the text cursor. - added +uninhibited option. When enabled, you don't need to press error reset following an error required - added +allow_strpccmd option. When enabled, TN5250 will run commands submitted via the STRPCCMD CL command. - (Win32 only) added +numlock option. When enabled, TN5250 will put the keyboard in numlock mode when the emulator starts. - added +field_minus_in_char option. When enabled, the field minus key behaves the same as field exit when in a character field. - (Win32 only) added a Macro menu. Clicking the options will execute/record macros. (Previously this support was available via keyboard only.) - (Unix only) Lots of enhancements to scs2pdf. - More work done on 5250 enhanced support. - Many bug fixes. For full details of what has changed in this release, please look at the ChangeLog source file included in the source distribution. Scott Klement 2008-11-22T04:10:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1015 Okay, Buck! The Windows installer now installs the cutting edge :) Buck Calabro wrote: Scott Klement 2008-11-22T04:12:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1014 This builds fine for me on Kubuntu 8.04. Brian Hill 2008-11-22T03:18:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1013 That works much better, thanks. I thought there was a pre4 but could not find it when I downloaded the pre3 version. Now I'm back to something I'm pretty sure I've had before, but don't care enough tonight to solve: x5250: error while loading shared libraries: lib5250.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory It might be the good ole ldconfig issue. Thanks! -- Sean Porterfield This email is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) above and may contain information that is privileged. If you have received this message in error or are not the named recipient(s), please notify the sender immediately and delete this email message from your computer as any and all unauthorized distribution or use of this message is strictly prohibited. Thank you. Porterfield, Sean 2008-11-22T02:13:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1012 Ok, I have done all of the above. The resulting tarball is at: http://www.eaerich.com/tn5250-0.17.4.tar.gz This should be the release tarball unless anyone finds any problems. At this point I'm inclined to skip creating an RPM and leave that to specific distros. A source tarball and a Windows executable should be enough. I'll leave it up to you to update the SourceForge page and actually announce the new release. James Rich if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond when you're done reading them :) - Paul Davis on ardour-dev James Rich 2008-11-22T01:27:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1011 This doesn't sound like a cursor progression bug, but rather a bug with the way a previous screen is restored. However I can't really know without a way to reproduce the error. If you have a way I can test that please let me know. The latest version of x5250 is x5250-0.5.2-pre4.tar.gz available at: http://www.eaerich.com/x5250-0.5.2-pre4.tar.gz This version builds perfectly with tn5250 version 0.17.4 for me. Please note that the above URL is not the permanent home for x5250, it is just there while the old server is getting moved to a different network. This looks like a corrupted file to me. Please download the new releases and try again. James Rich if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond when you're done reading them :) - Paul Davis on ardour-dev-- This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: LINUX5250-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/linux5250 or email: LINUX5250-request-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250. James Rich 2008-11-22T01:37:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1010 As far as I can tell, it works as before on Fedora 9. There is still a cursor progression bug that I think I reported a while back (I could be mistaken on the reporting part) but it's not a huge problem. Basically, we have DDS menus run in CL programs. If I key the number of a menu item, the cursor moves to the right (as it should). When I exit the program and the menu is redisplayed, the cursor does not return to the beginning of the field as it should. I haven't been using it enough in a long time to remember exactly when this problem was introduced. My test was using xt5250. The latest version of x5250 I have is x5250-0.5.2-pre3, so if that isn't the latest, please let me know. It will no longer `make` for me, so I have not tested it against the latest tn5250. (I had that problem from cvs tn5250 when I put Fedora 9 on this computer, so it's not really a "new" problem related to this weeks push for a release.) In file included from /usr/local/include/tn5250.h:34, from x5250.h:35, from alloccolors.c:27: /usr/local/include/tn5250/utility.h:36: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘!’ token /usr/local/include/tn5250/utility.h:87: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘tn5250_char_map_to_remote’ /usr/local/include/tn5250/utility.h:88: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘tn5250_char_map_to_local’ /usr/local/include/tn5250/utility.h:90: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘Tn5250Char’ /usr/local/include/tn5250/utility.h:91: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘Tn5250Char’ In file included from /usr/local/include/tn5250.h:37, from x5250.h:35, from alloccolors.c:27: /usr/local/include/tn5250/field.h:80: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘Tn5250Uint16’ In file included from /usr/local/include/tn5250.h:42, from x5250.h:35, from alloccolors.c:27: /usr/local/include/tn5250/stream.h:84: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘SOCKET_TYPE’ /usr/local/include/tn5250/stream.h:99: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘SOCKET_TYPE’ /usr/local/include/tn5250/stream.h:129: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘masterSock’ In file included from /usr/local/include/tn5250.h:46, from x5250.h:35, from alloccolors.c:27: /usr/local/include/tn5250/terminal.h:151: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘SOCKET_TYPE’ In file included from /usr/local/include/tn5250.h:48, from x5250.h:35, from alloccolors.c:27: /usr/local/include/tn5250/printsession.h:55: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘SOCKET_TYPE’ make[2]: *** [alloccolors.o] Error 1 -- Sean Porterfield This email is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) above and may contain information that is privileged. If you have received this message in error or are not the named recipient(s), please notify the sender immediately and delete this email message from your computer as any and all unauthorized distribution or use of this message is strictly prohibited. Thank you. Porterfield, Sean 2008-11-22T00:54:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1009 I tested it on FreeBSD 6.2, 7.0 and Windows XP. All of them look good to me. James Rich wrote: Scott Klement 2008-11-22T00:17:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1008 Ok, new test tarball is available at: http://www.eaerich.com/tn5250-0.17.4-test3.tar.gz I've checked all the subdirectories and everything looks perfect to me. If people can verify that this looks good then I'll go ahead and make the CVS tags tonight. Sorry I didn't see you email last night - I've been getting list mail with about a 10 minute delay. I'll talk to David about it. James Rich if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond when you're done reading them :) - Paul Davis on ardour-dev James Rich 2008-11-21T23:24:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1007 Hmmm... I actually sent a note saying my fixes were done. It was posted about 10 minutes before your mesage saying "let me know when the fixes are ready". Oh well :) Also, I just thought of something: The copyright notices throughout the code are out of date. they should probably be updated to 2008! So I've gone ahead and done that and committed it as well. James Rich wrote: Scott Klement 2008-11-21T08:12:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1006 Okay, this should now be fixed. James, can you make a new one? And please verify that the freebsd, linux, sun and win32 directories are now in the distro... Scott Klement wrote: Scott Klement 2008-11-21T00:54:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1005 You're right - I didn't notice this before since "make dist" and "make distcheck" all worked fine and I only use lib5250, not tn5250. Let me know when the fix is ready - I gotta go home :) James Rich if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond when you're done reading them :) - Paul Davis on ardour-dev James Rich 2008-11-21T01:03:58 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1004 Builds just fine for me on a Kubuntu 8.04 system. Brian Hill 2008-11-21T00:30:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1003 James, All of the OS-specific subdirectories are missing from this tarball (and the earlier one, I bet, too...) The freebsd, linux, sun and win32 directories are all missing -- I'm working on a fix. James Rich wrote: Scott Klement 2008-11-21T00:17:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1002 Ok, I have created a new test release tarball that includes those changes. I've checked it on my systems and everything works perfectly. Please everyone, double check that this builds correctly for you: http://www.eaerich.com/tn5250-0.17.4-test2.tar.gz James Rich if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond when you're done reading them :) - Paul Davis on ardour-dev James Rich 2008-11-20T23:38:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250/1001 That shouldn't matter. This appears to be a configuration issue on your computer. You have to tell your computer where to look for libraries. It appears that your computer is looking in /usr/lib but not in /usr/local/lib or /usr/lib/tn5250 How you change that config will vary from distro to distro -- and I'm not an Ubuntu guy. But perhaps the man page for ldconfig will tell you? I know on FreeBSD, I'd do: ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib I seem to recall the last time I used Linux it was different, I had to edit a file called /etc/ld.so.conf (or some such thing). But I don't know if that's the case for you. Again, try the man page for ldconfig(8) it should explain it. Scott Klement 2008-11-20T21:22:11 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250