Re: Re xt5250 and 132 column issues....

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, fschnittke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks for your reply. I gave another go to x5250, and remembered why I
had abandoned it, I just couldn't seem to get it installed (on either of
my machines). The first part is the ouput of the "configure" command,
followed by the output of the "make" command. That's where I run into
problems. Your thoughts would be appreciated...

[snip]

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include
-DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share\" -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -MT
alloccolors.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/alloccolors.Tpo -c -o alloccolors.o
alloccolors.c
In file included from /usr/X11R6/include/tn5250.h:33,
from x5250.h:34,
from alloccolors.c:26:
/usr/X11R6/include/tn5250/utility.h:36: error: expected '=', ',', ';',
'asm' or '__attribute__' before '!' token
/usr/X11R6/include/tn5250/utility.h:87: error: expected '=', ',', ';',
'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'tn5250_char_map_to_remote'
/usr/X11R6/include/tn5250/utility.h:88: error: expected '=', ',', ';',
'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'tn5250_char_map_to_local'
/usr/X11R6/include/tn5250/utility.h:90: error: expected declaration
specifiers or '...' before 'Tn5250Char'
/usr/X11R6/include/tn5250/utility.h:91: error: expected declaration
specifiers or '...' before 'Tn5250Char'

I think I remember seeing these errors before. I believe they are the result of using an older version of tn5250. Could you please run the following command and tell me what it says:

tn5250 -version

If it doesn't say "tn5250 0.17.4" then getting the latest release of tn5250 is the first requirement. In an earlier message you said that you had 0.17.3, 0.17.4, and 0.17.5 from CVS all installed. That sounds like a lot of potential for problems, particularly if you have one version installed in one place (like /usr) and another version installed in another (like /usr/local).

Once tn5250 version 0.17.4 is installed then build x5250 using the source from:

http://www.eaerich.com/x5250-0.5.2-pre4.tar.gz

It should build with no warnings.

James Rich

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