Re: PGP Encryption for the AS/400 ...

comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc
had a posting on getting gnupg to run under V5R2 PASE.

http://tinyurl.com/7k4nw


Keith



Sean Porterfield wrote:

> I found a binary on bullfreeware.com that is an exe (containing mostly
> zip format) that contains a .bff file which I was able to extract.
> 
> $ cd /QOpenSys/
> $ restore -xvqdf gnu.pg-1.0.4.0.bff
> 
> I don't know what the parameters mean; I found an example somewhere for
> the restore command that had those.  It installed the binary to
> /usr/local/bin so I added that to my path.
> 
> $ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
> 
> Then I tried to run it.
> 
> $ gpg -v
> exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program gpg because of the following errors:
>         0509-150   Dependent module libz.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.
>         0509-022 Cannot load module libz.a(shr.o).
>         0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does
> not exist.
>         0509-022 Cannot load module /usr/local/bin/gpg.
> 
> (Sorry for the wrapping.)
> 
> I see that means I need zlib:
> http://www.i5php.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9&start=0
> http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/aixpdslib.html
> http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/zlib.html (which version?)
> 
> I picked the AIX 5.1 version.
> 
> $ uncompress zlib.1.2.3.tar.Z
> $ tar xvf zlib.1.2.3.tar
> 
> Now I get "0509-152   Member shr.o is not found in archive" instead of
> 0509-026 above.
> 
> I'm going to stop for the day and see if something brilliant comes to me
> later.
> 
> 
> 
> I had previously tried compiling from source and got a series of errors
> like:
> 
> mpih-div.c:100: error: can't find a register in class `MQ_REGS' while
> reloading `asm'
> 
> I saw a post (from a Google search) that suggested --disable-asm which I
> can only assume would be a parameter to the ./configure script.
> 
> -- 
> Sean