From: UnixOS2 Archive To: "UnixOS2 Archive" Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:03:04 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 89 ************************************************** Tuesday 01 April 2003 Number 89 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: BSD installations [was: Building Python] : Henry Sobotka 2 Re: BSD installations [was: Building Python] : Henry Sobotka 3 ICONV - was - OT code page conversions : John Poltorak 4 MAXSOCKETS : John Poltorak **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 01:18:56 -0500 From: Henry Sobotka Subject: Re: BSD installations [was: Building Python] Dave and Natalie wrote: > > So how do the BSDs play with other OS and bootmanager? Nicely here (FreeBSD) alongside OS/2, Linux, Solaris, BeOS and the candycoated droppings from Redmond off both the OS/2 and BeOS boot managers. My main grumble used to be that it needs a primary partition, but with multiple disks now that's no more an annoyance, and with BM it boots off disk 3. h~ **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 02:23:27 -0500 From: Henry Sobotka Subject: Re: BSD installations [was: Building Python] Steve Wendt wrote: > > Is that PowerQuest's BootMagic, or am I thinking of something else? It's a "special edition" created by PQ for BeOS 4.5, but I've never seen the one that now comes with Partition Magic, so don't know how it compares. What I like about it is that it doesn't take a primary (yet has gotten trashed here, but that was before Dani's boot-sector guard which I haven't yet tried) and certainly has the best-looking interface of any BM I've seen. With its latest installation on a refreshed old box, OS/2 won't boot off it though it has on other machines, so I consider this version at least less reliable than OS/2 BM. h~ **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:42:32 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: ICONV - was - OT code page conversions On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:22:15PM +0100, Dave Saville wrote: > >Also, now that you mention it, a check of my emx/gcc install reports: > > > > iconv.h 1,381 .a.. 11-16-01 10:05:54 > > > >and > > > > iconv.h 2,336 .a.. 10-23-01 20:07:24 > > > >You might want to check your installation. > > Ahh, I was using the gcc 2.8.1 built by John's build system - and it > aint got iconv in it. I get the feeling that iconv is a can of worms for some reason without ever really having looked at it... IMV the correct solution would be to install libiconv which is available here:- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.8.tar.gz I have no idea if this builds correctly or not. ISTR some people saying that we shouldn't bother with lib, but I can't recall the specifics. Can anyone advise on how best to incorporate ICONV into UnixOS/2? > -- > Regards > > Dave Saville > -- John **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:56:38 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: MAXSOCKETS I'm try to build an old version of Sendmail and get a lot instances of this msg:- c:\emx\include\sys/socket.h:307: warning: `MAXSOCKETS' redefined What do I need to do to get rid of it? -- John