From: UnixOS2 Archive To: "UnixOS2 Archive" Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 04:26:03 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 221 ************************************************** Monday 20 May 2002 Number 221 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: make 3.79.1 and compiling emacs : Arnstein.Prytz at jcu.edu.au 2 GTAK / Gnu Tar / Newbie : Dan Drake"
**= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 08:07:03 -0400 From: Arnstein.Prytz at jcu.edu.au Subject: Re: make 3.79.1 and compiling emacs > > AFAICR, I had problems trying to compile EMACS with the previous release. > > Do you think it should work now? > > It should. But I haven't tested this special case. Does this mean someone may be able to update emacs for us (says he hopefully, with little experience of his own)? I am using 20.6.1 by Jeremy Bowen, but this has some serious bugs when spawning processes to send mail and such. Regards, Arnstein ------------------------------------------------------------------ Arnstein Prytz Arnstein.Prytz at jcu.edu.au School of Maths and Physics ph: 61-7-47815183 James Cook University fax: 61-7-47815880 Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------ **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:23:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dan Drake"
Subject: GTAK / Gnu Tar / Newbie Newcomer reporting in, with limited Unix system-bashing experience. A helpful person in the comp.os.os2 groups suggested I join this list. Having got the official intro message, >This is a mailing list dedicated to the discussion of running Unix >utils under OS/2. This ranges from getting the syntax correct for >SED or GREP etc to getting help with AUTOCONF scripts when trying >to install software... > >... This list should be regarded as complementary to >the XFree86OS/2 list and is only concerned with base utils, >scripting and installation. EMX development and porting guides >are covered elsewhere. I'm not sure whether this is the right place for my queries; if not, is there a better one? If this isn't the right list, ignore the following: I'd like to be able to build GTAK or any sort of Gnu Tar for OS/2. This would let me work on a couple of little things, like its practice of crashing at an indefinite time *after* reloading certain Desktop folders that it previously dumped with the --posix option. The most recent distributions don't have source for certain parts, like tape.c, which aren't officially open source and never claimed to be. This is an even bigger barrier to building it than the fact that the Make file assumes different directories from those in the distribution. There is at least one very old version that seems to have all the necessary source -- in ancient 16-bit form. The project of hacking that to work with the recent source is one that I'd rather not try -- assuming it can be done at all -- if anyone else has already done it. Does anyone have a build? Or leads to one? Or the leads to track down the long-gone author from his former job with a German streetcar company? Naturally, if I ever get anywhere on this project, the results will go up on my Web site, insofar as it seems to be legal to redistribute the stuff I work from. -- Dan Drake dd at dandrake.com http://www.dandrake.com/