Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 00:07:04 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [Ux2bs_Archive] No. 273

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Friday 06 February 2004
 Number  273
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Subjects for today
 
1   Autoconf : Davide Bresolin" <davide at teamos2.it>
2  Re:  Autoconf : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
3  Re:  Perl 5.8.3 : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
4  Re:  Autoconf : Davide Bresolin" <davide at teamos2.it>


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

Date:  Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:01:37 +0100 (CET)
From:  "Davide Bresolin" <davide at teamos2.it>
Subject:   Autoconf

Hi,
I've just installed UX2BS, and I'm trying to compile some unix stuff.
However, when i launch "sh autoconf", i get the following error message:

FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.52 or higher is required for this script

I've autoconf 2.13. How I can get an updated version?

If I do "build autoconf", I get the following:

[CUT]
...Using Autoconf version 2.13
autoconf: configure.in: No such file or directory
...autoconf failed.
[CUT]

Some suggestions?

Ciao...

       -=> DaViDe <=-
-=> davide(AT)teamos2.it <=-

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

Date:  Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:10:53 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:  Re:  Autoconf

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:01:37PM +0100, Davide Bresolin wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just installed UX2BS, and I'm trying to compile some unix stuff.
> However, when i launch "sh autoconf", i get the following error message:
> 
> FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.52 or higher is required for this script
> 
> I've autoconf 2.13. How I can get an updated version?
> 
> If I do "build autoconf", I get the following:
> 
> [CUT]
> ..Using Autoconf version 2.13
> autoconf: configure.in: No such file or directory
> ..autoconf failed.
> [CUT]
> 
> Some suggestions?

Maybe you can explain what you mean when you say you have installed 
UX2BS...

If it gets installed and built properly, Autoconf will actually get built 
automatically for you.

 
> Ciao...
> 
>        -=> DaViDe <=-
> -=> davide(AT)teamos2.it <=-


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

Date:  Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:22:03 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:  Re:  Perl 5.8.3

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:50:49AM -0500, Jack Troughton wrote:

> >>Here's the stats on perl:
> > 
> > Is this 5.8.3 ?
> 
> Yes.

That's great.

> >>I'm noting that no objects are being created for prompts etc on the 
> >>desktop... how do I get those to appear?
> > 
> > You should get a build folder if you run \unixos2\lib\buildfolder.
> > In theory each icon should be a buildable object.
> 
> Well, when I was running it earlier, I'd get objects like "ux2 shell" 
> and so on. I was wondering where those came from.

Can't say I'm familiar with that.

 
> >>Also, should I look at modifying my config.sys so that the system in 
> >>general will be using ux2? If so, what should I put in there?
> > 
> > No config.sys changes should be required. UX2BS runs in its own shell 
> > which means any existing environment should be able to carry on working as 
> > before.
> 
> Right... so how does one go about starting its shell?

You don't actually start the shell, you run 'build appname'. Build starts 
its own shell and creates the environment it needs. 

> I'm more asking about doing something like getting the sources for some 
> app that's not included in the build system. I did start this off as a 
> way to try porting nmap...

If you are lucky, all you need to do is create a new entry in build.table 
which includes the app name and the url which is definitive location for 
the source of the app, then run 'build app'. 

On occasions it is as simple as that! More often than not, some tweaking 
is required. I would expect nmap to be quite difficult.

One feature currently missing from UX2BS is a dependency check, but I 
would like to incorporate that in due course. This would consist of a 
table showing all the prerequisite apps, such as libraries which are 
needed for a sucessfull build. 
 
> >>Overall, this is pretty slick, in a unixy kind of way:)
> > 
> > Yes, the slickness of Unix is the way things 'just happen' without you 
> > even noticing it. 
> > 
> > I'd like UX2BS to work just as automagically, but still needs quite a bit 
> > of work.
> 
> Doesn't it always?

Yup! ;-)

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

Date:  Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:15:44 +0100 (CET)
From:  "Davide Bresolin" <davide at teamos2.it>
Subject:  Re:  Autoconf

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:10:53 +0000, John Poltorak wrote:

> Maybe you can explain what you mean when you say you have installed 
> UX2BS...
> 
> If it gets installed and built properly, Autoconf will actually get built 
> automatically for you.

I've downloaded ux2bs_inst.cmd and run it. It seems that all was ok. There is a log file to 
check, anyway?





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