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  • Subject: Re: Bug squashing: Day #1
  • From: "Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:06:59 -0400

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 01:45:31AM -0500, Scott Klement wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Mike Madore wrote:
> 
> > > Hmm... this still needs work.  DFU still positions the cursor to the 
> > > wrong line.   Break messages still mess up the cursor placement.
> > 
> > This should be fixed in CVS now.  Really.  I mean it this time. ;-)  It
> > was actually a different problem from the other positioning
> > error.  Details in the changelog.
> 
> 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.
> 
> It does appear to resume from SNDBRKMSG correctly, tho...  so it looks
> like you're getting there :)
> 
> 
> > Regarding the freebsd patch.  The script portion of makefile.am looks
> > cool, but unfortunately, the bsd files are overwriting the linux files in
> > /usr/local/share/tn5250.  I'm going to look into a better way for us to
> > handle the platform difference when installing.  I'll definately include
> > your stuff though.
> 
> 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! :)
> 
> 
> 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?

Fixed in CVS.  We install config.h, which we have to remove some things
from, so we use "tn5250-config.h" instead.  config.h isn't yet generated,
hence the error.

> 
> Both are freshly retrieved from CVS.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

-Jay
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