Re: [LINUX5250] TN5250 & X5250 issues

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Jack J. Woehr wrote:

> James Rich wrote:
>
> > I guess I really need to clear out all the autoconf stuff then.  I put up
> > another tarball at the same URL.  If you can, please try again.
>
> Okay, first I installed automake 2.59 and autoconf 1.9 before trying 
> again. This time:
>
>     [17:12:22 jax@mitra:/usr/local/src/x5250]$ ./autogen.sh
>     /usr/local/share/aclocal/xdelta.m4:7: warning: underquoted 
>       definition of AM_PATH_XDELTA
>       run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'

These errors are not serious and there's nothing we can do about them 
anyway.  Notice that they are from other packages.  Newer autoconf is much 
stricter about quoting and these error messages are from packages that 
haven't been updated for newer autoconf.  I get many of the same errors 
and it isn't a problem.  (At least it hasn't been yet!)

>     configure.ac: installing `./install-sh'
>     configure.ac: installing `./missing'
>     src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'

These lines show that autoconf worked ok.

> And the make still hung on rpl_malloc.

This still bothers me.  Can you send me the entire output from make? 
autoconf defines rpl_malloc when the real malloc function is non-portable. 
What is bothering me is that it only complains about debug.c and not the 
other files that use malloc.  Thus the complete output from make might be 
useful.

It may very well be that I need to write a replacement for malloc.  Not a 
big deal since the autoconf manual gives the code that should be used (it 
is just a wrapper around the real malloc function).  But I want to be sure 
that that is the real problem.

James Rich

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