Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:05:20 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 478

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Sunday 19 December 2004
 Number  478
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  postgreSQL progress : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
2  Re:  Building SMAKE/STAR etc : Dave Yeo" <dave_yeo at paralynx.com>
3  Re:  octave port : Andy Willis <abwillis at comcast.net>
4  Re:  postgreSQL progress : lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca
5  Re:  postgreSQL progress : Knut St. Osmundsen" <bird at anduin.net>
6  Re:  octave port : Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>


**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:58:33 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:  Re:  postgreSQL progress

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:03:56PM -0500, lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca wrote:
> Well,
> 
> It is now working - more or less - at least the server starts up and shuts
> down correctly. I should be able to have an alpha/beta of postreSQL RC1
> out by late sunday.

Will it be functionally equivalent to Vinceno Venuto's port? I spent some 
trying to get that working at one point so it would be nice to capitalise 
on whatever I gleaned from that experience.

BTW the contact referenced at Hobbes for his ports are no longer valid, so 
is he no longer developing his port?

> Lorne
> 
> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca
> -----------------------------------------------------------


-- 
John
 



**= Email   2 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:26:17 -0800
From:  "Dave Yeo" <dave_yeo at paralynx.com>
Subject:  Re:  Building SMAKE/STAR etc

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:21:06 +0000, John Poltorak wrote:

>What changes need to be made to various utilities such as smake, star etc 
>developed by Joerg Schilling to make them build on OS/2?
>
>They come with build instructions for OS/2 but I haven't managed to make 
>them work. Has anyone else?

Building smake-1.2a23 I needed star to unpack the tar archive
star -x -copylinks < smake-1.2a23.tar.gz (run twice so symlinks all
resolve)
Then need to remove -Zexe from psmake/MAKE-sh and
RULES/i386-os2-gcc.rul
and run sh Gmake.linux. Install seems to be broken when using Gnu Make
so copy smake/OBJ/i386-os2-gcc/smake.exe to PATH (or perhaps use its
absolute location) then something like smake INS_BASE=/usr/local
install will install to /usr/local.
To build smake with Innotek_libc you need to add -lsocket to the LIBS=
in smake/Makefile.
Star-1.4.3 builds fine using smake but smake install is broken so star
needs to be installed manually. Same problems with getting it extracted
correctly, I started out by untarring in Linux and zipping it up and
transferring to OS/2
Star-1.4.3 also dies if built with innotek_libc due to a sigill
Star-1.5 does not build due to unresolved symbol _unlink. I did suceed
in building it with innotek_libc but all it did was segfault and I
haven't got around to debugging.
IIRC cdrtools-2.01 built fine here using smake
Dave



**= Email   3 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:32:08 -0700
From:  Andy Willis <abwillis at comcast.net>
Subject:  Re:  octave port

Steven Levine wrote:

>In <41C39EA5.2000107 at comcast.net>, on 12/17/04 
>   at 08:06 PM, Andy Willis <abwillis at comcast.net> said:
>
>  
>
>>I have been subscribed (in fact received both of these to the same email 
>>I am posting from).  I don't recall how to subscribe now but don't mind 
>>doing so if that is what is needed (maybe I posted the other from the 
>>wrong email by mistake -- guess I will know if this goes through).
>>    
>>
>
>You are subscribed as of now.  You original message did not show up on the
>list, so John may have done something for you.  IAC, you are here.
>
>  
>
Yeah, I had sent a note to John and he replied that he had added me when 
he sent the mail to the list.  He said he didn't see my name there.  
Odd, as to send to the list I pulled the address from an email I had.  
Though, come to think of it, it was a bit old and I didn't have any 
newer ones.  Can't check it right now as what I referenced below as 
having deleted was my mozilla profile when I was checking into an issue 
I am having when launching Firefox/Sunbier/Thunderbird when no profile 
exists. I had renamed my profiles directory to see if Mozilla made from 
the same base had the same issue.  Unfortunately, I wasn't paying 
attention and rather than renaming it back I used my treekiller on it.

>>Thanks, I was trying to build f2c from the gcc package.  I will try the 
>>netlib package
>>    
>>
>
>I'm not sure which package is better.
>
>  
>
I think the netlib package is probably required as I don't see any 
executable in the gcc package and if you tell Octave to use f2c it 
expects an executable.

>>once I am 100% convinced I can't save some files I 
>>accidently deleted from my jfs drive (looks like the rexxutil 
>>SysFileDelete function zero's the file size when it deletes files or at 
>>least that is what is looks like with my tests so far with trying to 
>>recover files I have deleted this way using jrescuer).
>>    
>>
>
>Humm.  That not what:
>
> \Toolkit\Samples\REXX\API\REXXUTIL\REXXUTIL.C
>
>says.  It shows a straight DosDelete().  Do you have some sort of file
>security addin installed?  You may have just gotten unlucky.
>
>Steven
>  
>
Could be that I was just unlucky.  When I didn't find my files (any of 
them that I had a fairly good idea of the size and date) I went ahead 
and deleted a file with the del command and found it.  I then used my 
treekiller and I found the directory but the files that were left were 0 
size.  As I had a whole lot of zero size files I think that is what 
happened.  In the test case I knew the i-nodes so could find the 
directory, unfortunately, there are no names just i-nodes, and create 
date, access date, and mdify date, size, and ea size.  I am trying to 
build logdump from the open source jfs so I can see if I can find i-node 
information from that.  It is probably to late this time but maybe I can 
make use of it if I do this again (have gone 4+ years with no undelete 
in JFS without issue so I guess I was due). 
 Anyway, I definately can't find my files and there are *a lot* of 0 
size files (oh, and no I don't have any security addins).  I will do 
some more testing as I didn't expect this as when I had tried setting 
the deldir in config sys it would move the files to the deleted 
directory until I added setlocal and cleared the deldir environment 
variable (I know this contradicts with what I am seeing now as it wasn't 
0 then but best I can tell right now it is happening).
Well, this is off-topic here... if you have any interest in this I can 
send you the full script which is fairly short or if you search hobbes 
for treegone.  There will be 2 hits.  One is just treegone and the other 
is diskutil which contains treegone (AFAIR they should both be the same).
Andy


**= Email   4 ==========================**

Date:  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:21:26 -0500
From:  lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca
Subject:  Re:  postgreSQL progress

Hi

I'm not sure if he (Venuto) is still working on his port, that is one of
the reasons I decided to port the new v8.0 postgreSQL. The new version 8.0
of the database seems to support all the version 7 stuff and also allows
for tablespaces etc. See the postgreSQL main web site for the changes
http://www.postgresql.org

The port I am doing will support the full functionality of the v7 port and
more. The new v8 code has .exe files instead of scripts for things line
initdb, createuser, createdb etc, etc. That means that users do not have
to have a *nix shell around to use the database.

Right now it is all working with the exception of the statistics
reporting. I have a bug in there but the database itself works and
executes SQL.

I am working on an install package for the code so I can send it out for
testing and/or "non-critical" use. That should be ready to go tomorrow
(and I hope those are not "famous last words").

The postgreSQL folks are agreeable with including my OS/2 patches into the
official release after the v8.0 GA is done. That would mean v8.1 would
have  OS/2 support.

This particular port is dependant on GCC 3.3.5 LIBC06 fork code. The fork
stuff works well. The main hack I had to do was to partly implement sysV
semaphores and shared memory handling, and attach the shared memory region
after every fork() call. The standard fork() automatically attaches shared
memory for child processes but Knut has not done that yet (probably
because it requires a full implementation of the *nix IPC handling).

BTW - thanks Knut - gcc 3.3.5 B2 is working quite well

Lorne

In <20041218145833.G32443 at warpix.org>, on 12/18/04 
   at 02:58 PM, John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org> said:

>On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:03:56PM -0500, lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca wrote:
>> Well,
>> 
>> It is now working - more or less - at least the server starts up and shuts
>> down correctly. I should be able to have an alpha/beta of postreSQL RC1
>> out by late sunday.

>Will it be functionally equivalent to Vinceno Venuto's port? I spent some
> trying to get that working at one point so it would be nice to
>capitalise  on whatever I gleaned from that experience.

>BTW the contact referenced at Hobbes for his ports are no longer valid,
>so  is he no longer developing his port?


-- 
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lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca
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**= Email   5 ==========================**

Date:  Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:01:03 +0000
From:  "Knut St. Osmundsen" <bird at anduin.net>
Subject:  Re:  postgreSQL progress



lsunley at mb.sympatico.ca wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm not sure if he (Venuto) is still working on his port, that is one of
> the reasons I decided to port the new v8.0 postgreSQL. The new version 8.0
> of the database seems to support all the version 7 stuff and also allows
> for tablespaces etc. See the postgreSQL main web site for the changes
> http://www.postgresql.org
> 
> The port I am doing will support the full functionality of the v7 port and
> more. The new v8 code has .exe files instead of scripts for things line
> initdb, createuser, createdb etc, etc. That means that users do not have
> to have a *nix shell around to use the database.
> 
> Right now it is all working with the exception of the statistics
> reporting. I have a bug in there but the database itself works and
> executes SQL.
> 
> I am working on an install package for the code so I can send it out for
> testing and/or "non-critical" use. That should be ready to go tomorrow
> (and I hope those are not "famous last words").
> 
> The postgreSQL folks are agreeable with including my OS/2 patches into the
> official release after the v8.0 GA is done. That would mean v8.1 would
> have  OS/2 support.
> 
> This particular port is dependant on GCC 3.3.5 LIBC06 fork code. The fork
> stuff works well. The main hack I had to do was to partly implement sysV
> semaphores and shared memory handling, and attach the shared memory region
> after every fork() call. The standard fork() automatically attaches shared
> memory for child processes but Knut has not done that yet (probably
> because it requires a full implementation of the *nix IPC handling).

Did you make use of the Dos API extensions for managing shared memory? 
If not: DosAllocSharedMemEx for alloc, DosGetSharedMemEx and 
DosGetNamedSharedMemEx for getting, and DosFreeMemEx for freeing. Must 
#define INCL_EXAPIS to get the prototypes from os2emx.h.
See the bottom of os2emx.h for descriptions details and 
src/emx/src/lib/sys/Dos*Ex.c for implementation.

Yes, I need to do the IPC framework when adding any shm, msg and sem 
implementation. And presently I don't really have any spare time for 
doing that.

Kind Regards,
  knut


**= Email   6 ==========================**

Date:  Sun, 19 Dec 2004 00:01:58 -0800
From:  "Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net>
Subject:  Re:  octave port

In <41C45B88.1030709 at comcast.net>, on 12/18/04 
   at 09:32 AM, Andy Willis <abwillis at comcast.net> said:

>the same base had the same issue.  Unfortunately, I wasn't paying 
>attention and rather than renaming it back I used my treekiller on it.

Oops.

>I think the netlib package is probably required as I don't see any 
>executable in the gcc package and if you tell Octave to use f2c it 
>expects an executable.

True.  Klaus's 2.1.23 sources included source for all the required
subpackages, so building from source built f2c.

>Could be that I was just unlucky.

It is strange.  It may just be that jresucer does not handle all the
possible recovery cases yet.

>information from that.  It is probably to late this time but maybe I can 
>make use of it if I do this again (have gone 4+ years with no undelete 
>in JFS without issue so I guess I was due). 

I very rarely use undelete tools.  I've got tools that back up work in
progress to a remote system with a couple of keystrokes or mouse clicks. 
Anything else, I can recover from the backups.

> Anyway, I definately can't find my files and there are *a lot* of 0 
>size files

A large quantity of focused bad luck, it seems.

>Well, this is off-topic here... if you have any interest in this I can 

I'll grab it from hobbes if I get curious.

BTW, ISTR that I was able to build Octave using Klaus's distribution.  If
you get to sticking points, I might be able to figure out what he tweaked.

Regards,

Steven

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