Re: x5250 destructive backspace?

[Evan List <paratwa950@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
> > ;)