Re: x5250 destructive backspace?

I just wanted to report in and say that the destructive backspace works perfectly!

I was able to compile tn5250 and x5250 for glibc 2.3.X under Ubuntu 6.06 (after upgrading all the autoconf, etc tools from source of the newest versions).

Thank you again for this James Rich!

Evan

--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Evan List <paratwa950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Evan List <paratwa950@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [LINUX5250] x5250 destructive backspace?
To: "Linux 5250 Development Project" <linux5250@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 4:58 AM
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.

;)