Re: tn5250 with gcc 3.0, and on PARISC architecture

[Michael Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Hopefully, next weekend I'll have a chance to look at this.  I know that it
was a pain for Jason to get me write CVS access.  Is there anyone else that
would like the ability to make commits?  If so, I could probably get the OK
to host a CVS server here at TurboLinux.

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:15:38PM +1200, Carey Evans wrote:
> LaMont Jones has reported a couple of problems with tn5250 0.16.1 (and
> presumably the CVS version as well) in the Debian bug tracking system:
> see <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/97380>.
> 
> There are two issues:
> 
> 1. In gcc 3.0, printf is a macro, so the preprocessor conditionals in
> src/tn5250.c syntax() don't work.  LaMont has provided a patch:
> 
> diff -ur z/tn5250-0.16.1/src/tn5250.c tn5250-0.16.1/src/tn5250.c
> --- z/tn5250-0.16.1/src/tn5250.c      Thu May 25 07:54:51 2000
> +++ tn5250-0.16.1/src/tn5250.c        Sun May 13 17:58:12 2001
> @@ -175,11 +175,14 @@
>        printf ("%s, ", m->name);
>        m++; i++;
>     }
> -   printf ("\n\
> -   env.DEVNAME=NAME         Use NAME as session name (default: none).\n"
>  #ifndef NDEBUG
> -"   trace=FILE              Log session to FILE.\n"
> +#define PRINT_NDEBUG "   trace=FILE              Log session to FILE.\n"
> +#else
> +#define PRINT_NDEBUG
>  #endif
> +   printf ("\n\
> +   env.DEVNAME=NAME         Use NAME as session name (default: none).\n"
> +PRINT_NDEBUG
>  "   +/-underscores          Use/don't use underscores instead of underline\n\
>                             attribute.\n\
>     +/-version              Show emulator version and exit.\n\
> 
> 
> 2. The config.guess and config.sub files in the distribution tarball
> apparently need to be updated to the current versions for configure to
> work properly on PARISC.  LaMont points to the CVS repository at
> <URL:http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/config>, which are the
> same ones that Debian's libtool package in unstable has included since
> last month.
> 
> Can someone see about getting the patch above or something similar
> checked into CVS, and try to remember the second point when the time
> for the next release rolls around?
> 
> -- 
>        Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/
> 
>           "Quiet, you'll miss the humorous conclusion."
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