Re: [LINUX5250] RE: Question for xt5250

[Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Scott, now I'm finally up and running!

Joel
http://www.rpgnext.com


On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:46, Scott Klement wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> >
> > I couldn't get 0.16.5 to compile on RH9 (I haven't looked into the
> > problem yet, I'm likely missing something) but I tried it at home last
> > night and got the same result.
> >
> 
> Frustratingly, RH9 added a requirement to OpenSSL (which the OpenSSL team
> told me that they shouldn't have done).  The requirement is to include
> the krb5.h header from kerberos -- even if you're not using it -- in order
> to make OpenSSL-related programs compile.
> 
> That, in itself, wouldn't be a big deal, if the RH9 team had put the
> header in the default areas to search for include files!  But, since they
> didn't do that, it broke compatibilty with a lot of things.
> 
> I wrote a workaround to this problem in CVS, which allows you to make the
> CVS versions compile in RH9.   But, 0.16.5 was released before the
> workaround was written.
> 
> Here's a hack that you can use to make 0.16.5 compile:
> http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/200304/msg00015.html
> 
> >
> > One thing - a long time ago I had keyboard buffering problems that were
> > fixed later (and are still fixed.)  This issue is apparently different
> > somehow.  That means I can't tell when it "broke" because it may never
> > have worked.  I wasn't using OMS/400 or DBU during that time frame.
> >
> 
> Do you think it'd be worth trying older versions of TN5250 to see if
> there is a version that worked?
> 
> If you want to try that, you can do this:
> 
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/tn5250
>    co -D 1999-12-05 tn5250
> 
> That will check out the version of TN5250 that was in the HEAD branch on
> Dec 5th, 1999...
> 
> You can also do:
> 
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/tn5250
>    co -r v0-16-1 tn5250
> 
> to get version 0.16.1 of tn5250.
> 
> Using these techniques, you can try older versions and TN5250 and see if
> any of them worked.
> 
> > I'll see if I can create a program that reproduces the error.
> 
> That would probably help.
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