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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:00:57 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 87

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Sunday 30 March 2003
 Number  87
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  OT code page conversions : Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>
2   Postgres : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
3   Building Perl with gcc v3.2.1 : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
4   Strange Makefile entry for M4 : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
5  Re:  LDAP : Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
6  Re:  BSD installations [was: Building Python] : Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
7   OT code page conversions : Dave Saville" <dave.saville at ntlworld.com>
8  Re:  Building Perl with gcc v3.2.1 : Henry Sobotka <sobotka at axess.com>
9   Nistime : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
10  Re:  Building Perl with gcc v3.2.1 : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
11  Re:  BSD installations [was: Building Python] : Dave and Natalie" <dave_yeo at mindlink.bc.ca>
12  Re:  Strange Makefile entry for M4 : Andreas Buening <andreas.buening at nexgo.de>
13  Re:  Nistime : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
14  Re:  Nistime : Tobias Huerlimann" <tobias at tobiashuerlimann.de>

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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:56:08 -0800
From:  "Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>
Subject:  Re:  OT code page conversions

In <20030331111904.VYOU6166.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com at pooh>, on 03/31/03 
   at 12:14 PM, "Dave Saville" <dave.saville at ntlworld.com> said:

>Anyone know if gcc can do code page conversions? I found some info in the
>warp toolkit on iconv - but it appears to be Visual Age C++.

A Goggle search for:

  iconv gcc

implies the gcc library supports iconv().

Steven


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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:57:05 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:   Postgres


A new version of Postgres (7.3.2) is now available from:-

http://www.ecomstation.it/postgres/



-- 
John


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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:12:15 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:   Building Perl with gcc v3.2.1


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I'm forwarding a reply I got from IlyaZ to a post I made on USENET about 
building Perl with gcc 3.2.1.

Maybe someone can explain to me what he means...


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John

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Subject: Re: Building Perl with gcc v3.2.1
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[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
John Poltorak 
<jp at warpix.org>], who wrote in article <1049037862.496376 at ananke.eclipse.net.uk>:
> Has anyone succeeded in building Perl using gcc v3.2.1?
> 
> Apparently the latest gcc will not create OBJ files called .obj and this 
> is likely to comptelely mess up the way Perl is built on OS/2.

I never checked that

  make aout_perl

will work without first doing

  make

(some dependencies may be missing), but one can always try.  Moreover,
I think I left the logic in hints/os2.sh to build aout by default...

Hope this helps,
Ilya

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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:11:45 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:   Strange Makefile entry for M4


When building m4 there is a strange looking command executed as part of 
make install...  This is what actually occurs:-


/bin/sh ./../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin
u:/unixos2/bin/install.exe m4.exe /usr/local/bin/`echo m4.exe | sed 's,x,x,'`
make[1]: Leaving directory `U:/unixos2/workdir/m4-1.4/src'


The Makefile contains:-


transform = s,x,x,
...
...
install: all
	$(mkinstalldirs) $(bindir)
	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) m4$(EXEEXT) $(bindir)/`echo m4$(EXEEXT) | sed '$(transform)'`



I haven't seen anything like this before and don't understand what is 
going on. Can anyone explain it?


m4.exe does not get installed in the target directory.


-- 
John



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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:56:55 +0200 (CEST)
From:  Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Subject:  Re:  LDAP

> Does anyone know much about LDAP?
> 
> AFAIK, there is an OpenLDAP project. Can this be ported to OS/2?

There's a longish list of prerequisites (especially a particular
version of SleepyCat's DB) but once everything is available, porting
OpenLDAP should be relatively easy - at least it compiled without problems
not only on Linux but also on Solaris, which implies that it's more
portable than the average Linux code. ;-)

	Regards,
		Stefan
-- 
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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:03:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:  Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Subject:  Re:  BSD installations [was: Building Python]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Tobias Huerlimann wrote:

> I have to admit that the fdisk/disklabel steps (the first
> two major parts of the OpenBSD install script) can be nasty if one's doing
> that for the first time.

That's exactly where I lost hours (particularaly because I had to restart
from scratch, when my partioning turned out to be "suboptimal") while on
FreeBSD I could just choose "set reasonable default values" and those
steps were done within seconds.

But I have to agree that _after_ that, OpenBSD leaves less room for
errors. (And by now (since disklabel doesn't scare me anymore), OpenBSD
would be the BSD of my choice for its security policy...).

	Regards,
		Stefan


**= Email   7 ==========================**

Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:14:25 +0100 (BST)
From:  "Dave Saville" <dave.saville at ntlworld.com>
Subject:   OT code page conversions

Anyone know if gcc can do code page conversions? I found some info in
the warp toolkit on iconv - but it appears to be Visual Age C++.

TIA


-- 
Regards

Dave Saville


**= Email   8 ==========================**

Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:45:12 -0500
From:  Henry Sobotka <sobotka at axess.com>
Subject:  Re:  Building Perl with gcc v3.2.1

John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> I'm not all that well clued up on these things, but I thought there was a
> problem in creating OBJ files called .obj, which, AIUI is what Perl
> expects.

Perl uses the two extensions, .obj and .o, to distinguish between an OMF
and aout build, and for this relies on pre-3.x gcc's behavior of
automatically producing foo.obj when -Zomf is specified. With gcc 3.x,
unless the output filename is specified with -o, it produces foo.o
regardless of whether or not -Zomf is used. This means that -o $ at  has to
be added to a couple spots in the Perl build machinery for gcc 3.x.

h~

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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:07:32 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:   Nistime


NISTIME is an Open Source program for updating your PC clock from a list 
of time servers. It's available here with included source:-

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/time/nistime2.zip


Unfortunately it only comes with a Makefile for VAC++. 


Can anyone convert it so it works with gcc ?


-- 
John



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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:58:04 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:  Re:  Building Perl with gcc v3.2.1

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:27:25AM +1000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> Were you asking if AndyZ's gcc 3.2.1 could produce OMF objects?

I'm not all that well clued up on these things, but I thought there was a 
problem in creating OBJ files callled .obj, which, AIUI is what Perl 
expects.

 
> I was able to build Python 2.3a2 (which uses an OMF DLL) with it with only
> 1 problem:- I needed to recompile my DB 1.85 library.

Have you tried building the latest DB (4.1.25) ?

 
> Performance was pretty good, though better with -O2 than anything higher.
> 
> --
> Andrew I MacIntyre                     "These thoughts are mine alone..."
> E-mail: andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au  | Snail: PO Box 370
>         andymac at pcug.org.au            |        Belconnen  ACT  2616
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John


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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:19:33 -0800
From:  "Dave and Natalie" <dave_yeo at mindlink.bc.ca>
Subject:  Re:  BSD installations [was: Building Python]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:03:20 +0200 (CEST), Stefan Neis wrote:

>On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Tobias Huerlimann wrote:
>
>> I have to admit that the fdisk/disklabel steps (the first
>> two major parts of the OpenBSD install script) can be nasty if one's doing
>> that for the first time.
>
>That's exactly where I lost hours (particularaly because I had to restart
>from scratch, when my partioning turned out to be "suboptimal") while on
>FreeBSD I could just choose "set reasonable default values" and those
>steps were done within seconds.

So how do the BSDs play with other OS and bootmanager?
Dave


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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:09:33 +0100
From:  Andreas Buening <andreas.buening at nexgo.de>
Subject:  Re:  Strange Makefile entry for M4

John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> When building m4 there is a strange looking command executed as part of
> make install...  This is what actually occurs:-
> 
> /bin/sh ./../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin
> u:/unixos2/bin/install.exe m4.exe /usr/local/bin/`echo m4.exe | sed 's,x,x,'`
> make[1]: Leaving directory `U:/unixos2/workdir/m4-1.4/src'
> 
> The Makefile contains:-
> 
> transform = s,x,x,
> ...
> ...
> install: all
>         $(mkinstalldirs) $(bindir)
>         $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) m4$(EXEEXT) $(bindir)/`echo m4$(EXEEXT) | sed '$(transform)'`

This is part of the --program-transform-name feature. That's a no op
in your case.


> I haven't seen anything like this before and don't understand what is
> going on. Can anyone explain it?
> 
> m4.exe does not get installed in the target directory.

Do you have a m4.exe in the source directory?


Bye,
Andreas

-- 
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One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:22:05 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:  Re:  Nistime

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:45:21PM +0100, Tobias Huerlimann wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:07:32 +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone convert it so it works with gcc ?
> 
> That's too easy (see small patch and makefile below). 

Many thanks, I'll see if I can make use of it.

> But be aware that the 
> daytime protocol, which this tool utilizes, is quite old (this program is at 
> least 10 years old). The NTP protocol is probably a better way to sync time 
> nowadays.

Of course, it would be nice to have an OS/2 port of NTP, but I had no luck 
when I tried to build it. 

Feel free to have a try :-)...

The source is available here:-

http://www.ntp.org

 
> Bye,
> Tobias


-- 
John


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Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:45:21 +0100 (MEZ)
From:  "Tobias Huerlimann" <tobias at tobiashuerlimann.de>
Subject:  Re:  Nistime

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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:07:32 +0000, John Poltorak wrote:

> Can anyone convert it so it works with gcc ?

That's too easy (see small patch and makefile below). But be aware that the 
daytime protocol, which this tool utilizes, is quite old (this program is at 
least 10 years old). The NTP protocol is probably a better way to sync time 
nowadays.

Bye,
Tobias

=== nistime.diff - Cut here ================================================
- --- nistime.c	Mon Mar 31 22:35:36 2003
+++ nistime.patched.c	Mon Mar 31 22:35:54 2003
 at  at  -5,7 +5,7  at  at 
 /* ------------------------------ */
 /* Feature test macros            */
 /* ------------------------------ */
- -/* #define _POSIX_SOURCE                  /* Always require POSIX standard */
+/* #define _POSIX_SOURCE                  Always require POSIX standard */
 
 /* ------------------------------ */
 /* Standard include files         */
 at  at  -22,7 +22,12  at  at 
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <math.h>
 
+#ifdef __EMX__
+	#include <sys/types.h>
+	#include <io.h>			/* For close() */
+#else
 #include <types.h>                     /* Will be OS/2 TCP/IP types.h file */
+#endif
 #include <sys/socket.h>                /* More TCP/IP include files        */
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 /* #include <arpa/inet.h> */
 at  at  -36,9 +41,14  at  at 
 /* My local typedef's and defines  */
 /* ------------------------------- */
 
+#ifdef __EMX__
+	#define soclose(fd) close(fd)
+	#define psock_errno(s) perror(s)
+#endif
+
 #define  panic    SysPanic(__FILE__, __LINE__)
 
- -#define NIST_TIME_HOST           "time-a.nist.gov"
+#define NIST_TIME_HOST           "nist.time.gov"
 #define NIST_TIME_PORT           13             /* specific port */
 #define UNIX_EPOCH_MJD           40587          /* UNIX epoch date */
 
 at  at  -261,7 +271,9  at  at 
 -- (7) Close socket and free allocated memory
 ----------------------------------------------------------------- */
    _tzset();                                       /* Get timezone from TZ */
+#ifndef __EMX__
    sock_init();                                    /* Initialize sockets */
+#endif
 
 /* allocate a big message buffer, in case we get an oversize message */
    if( (buf = calloc( BUF_SIZE, 1)) == NULL) {
=== nistime.diff - Cut here ================================================

=== Makefile - Cut here ====================================================
TARGET =	nistime.exe

CC =		gcc
LD =		gcc

CFLAGS =	-Zmt -Wall -O2
LDFLAGS =	-Zexe -Zmt -s
LIBS =		-lsocket

SRCS =		nistime.c
OBJS =		$(SRCS:.c=.o)

.SUFFICES:	.c .o

.c.o:		
		$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $ at  -c $<

all:		$(TARGET)

clean:		
		rm -f $(TARGET) $(OBJS) core

$(TARGET):	$(OBJS)
		$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $ at  $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
=== Makefile - Cut here ====================================================

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