Re: Deep bug

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jason Bechtel wrote:

> Scott Klement wrote:
> > 
> > Does it still do this with the current development sources?
> 
> You'll have to help me to get setup with the development sources.  I'm
> still new to CVS.

To build from CVS, I have to have some extra development tools.  I
have:     autoconf-2.13, automake-1.4, libtool-1.3.4

To build version 0.17.x (the current development version) of tn5250, you
also need glib-1.2.7 or later

To get the sources, type:

cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.cleveland.lug.net:/tn5250' login
         (it'll ask you for a password.  the password is "anonymous")
cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.cleveland.lug.net:/tn5250' checkout tn5250

The result should be a directory called "tn5250" which has the current
sources in it.  

To build them, type:

cd tn5250/
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

To install them type (as root):
make install

> 
> In the meantime I'm checking out 0.16.1.  Do you think this will fix it?

It may help.   0.16.1 does have some changes to that section of code.
There are some bug fixes to the 0.16.x branch in CVS as well.  

To get the 0.16 branch from CVS, follow the same procedure as 0.17.x,
except add a switch to the checkout, like so:

cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.cleveland.lug.net:/tn5250' checkout -r  b0-16 
tn5250

(that should all be one line -- in case it gets wordwrapped)

you can also add a -d option to the "checkout" if you want to download
into a different directory name.  so you might have something like:

. . . checkout -r b0-16 -d tn5250-0.16 tn5250
or
. . . checkout -r HEAD -d tn5250-0.17 tn5250


Once you have the branch that you want, you can update your directory
to match the CVS server simply by:

cd tn5250-0.16
cvs update


> > Can you tell me how to reproduce the problem?
> 
> It's rather involved and I think the steps would be specific to the
> application that my client is using.  I've counted and it takes about 68
> keystrokes to ge the point in the application where the emulator
> crashes.

Hmmm... this makes it more difficult for me to try to come up with a fix.
A tracefile might help, but I'm not familiar with them. :(   

If the problem persists after upgrading tn5250, maybe I'll take a look at
that... or give Mike access to my AS/400 to see if he can figure it out :)


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