Re: x5250 destructive backspace?

Its a Linux distro called Thinstation. It is specifically made as a thin client OS. Very light and very quick to load. Its main use is to use traditional PCs as diskless thin clients. As an example I have the OS with all drivers, X window (with iceWM), the current x5250, rdesktop client, a calculator app, in under an 8MB image that PXE boots from the network to diskless PCs. It boots in under 45 seconds. I've recently been buy HP t5545 thin clients and reloading them with Thinstation.

With all its good things, one of the few negatives is some of the libraries are aging. There is active development on the project to migrate to a newer base, but the current version is so solid it still has many users.

My knowlege compiling is mild. To try and compile the newest tn5250 (and x5250) on a glibc 2.3X, I loaded up a machine with Ubuntu 6.06 (which uses glibc 2.3.6) and tried compiling the newest cvs of tn5250. I'm getting and error:

"Makefile.am.29: variable 'MAYBE_SLANG' not defined
python/Makefile.am:16: variable 'lib5250_la_SOURCES' not defined."

I found another midrange posting that you posted on thinking that the automake tools may be too old. That's what I'm going to try next.

Evan

--- On Sat, 1/30/10, James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [LINUX5250] x5250 destructive backspace?
To: "Linux 5250 Development Project" <linux5250@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 4:26 PM
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Evan List
wrote:

I'm struggling to get it (tn5250 17.5, then x5250) to

compile/execute

for glibc 2.3X (a requirement for my thin client

machines), but that's

my problem and I'm not going to drag you into that.

;)

What thin clients are you using?  I just installed a
few at a customer.

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good
books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to
redmond
when you're done reading them :)
    - Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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