Re: Bug squashing: Day #1

[Mike Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Scott Klement wrote:

> DFU still doesn't position the cursor correctly!  Do an UPDDTA on your
> favorite file...   in TN5250, the cursor appears on the "Format:" line.
> Everywhere else, it appears on the line that contains either "*RECNBR"
> or the first key to the file.

Boy this is one tenacious issue.  I guess I must not be taking care of all
the cases.  I'll take a look at it today and see if I can fix it once and
for all.
 
> Interesting.   The only files that have the same name between the two
> are "XTerm" and "README".  And the "README" in the linux directory 
> doesnt look like its even designated as something to install.
> 
> On my RedHat box, it installs the Linux version of XTerm, not the freebsd.
> 
> Tho, it is certainly confusing that it installs the FreeBSD README and
> us.5250.kbd into /usr/local/share/tn5250/   Its also confusing that it 
> installs us5250.map, uk5250.map, when installing on the FreeBSD box.
> 
> I agree that this should be improved upon! :)
 
I guess that was the problem I was talking about.  Not so much
overwriting, as installing files that don't apply for that OS. 

> Another thing that I should probably bring up:
> 
> When I do a "make" under FreeBSD it fails with this message:
> 
>      gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -g -O2 -c getopt.c
>      getopt.c:35: config.h: No such file or directory 
> 
> I can fix the problem quite easily by editing "getopt.c" and commenting
> out the #include <config.h>  line.   But I wonder why this is happening?
> config.h is too generic of a name to be a standard system include file,
> so what the heck is it looking for?   On my redhat box, it appears that
> theres a config.h in the tn5250/src directory... but not on FreeBSD.
> That seems weird to me... why would that be different?

Isn't config.h one of those files that is generated by automake and
friends?  Try running autogen.sh and configure again and see if it shows
up again.

Mike

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