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[toolbox-l] here's an error I am getting...

[<gth...@go...>]

I apologize if this is the wrong place to put this but...

I get the following error when trying to run vncserver
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program Xvnc because of the following errors:
        0509-119   The l_nimpid field in the .loader section header
                   is not positive.
        0509-193 Examine the .loader section header with the
                 'dump -Hv' command.

Any ideas?

Thanks
GRegg Thompson
gth...@go...

[toolbox-l] qcam under AIX

[<gth...@go...>]

All the QuickCam software for Linux uses inb and outb function calls to
access the parallel port.  Is this going to be supported under AIX?  I have
a quickcam I would like to use on my RS6k

GRegg Thompson
gth...@go...
P.S. I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask this...

[toolbox-l] AIX as desktop/graphics adapter

[Ralf U. <Ral...@Ph...>]

Hi all,

we appreciate very much this initiative. Especially KDE/Gnome
can help us a lot to keep some RS6k's as desktop systems and to
integrate all Aix and Linux boxes in an identical environment.

There is one point, where Marc or other IBMers may have a
good possibility to help us ('us' in the meaning of lots of RS6k
users all over the world) even more: 

	Please pull the strings to get a device driver with
	more than 8bits color depth for the GXT130P !!!!

This is nothing else than a Matrox Millenium G200, it probably
has its 8MB memory and it's a real nuisance to run it
with 8bit. No, we don't have the money to buy a GXT255P/300P for
all our boxes :( 

Regards, Ralf
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Re: [toolbox-l] AIX Toolbox for Linux - Etherape binary

[<bca...@au...>]

Pat,

I have downloaded the libpcap package from
http://www.tcpdump.org/
and was able to build it on AIX 4.3.3 (read the
README.aix file for hints on doing this).

Can't say anything about etherape, though.

Pat Strode wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just installed the AIX Toolbox for Linux and gcc on one of our SP nodes at Cooper Power Systems.  It runs quite well.
>
> Can you port etherape and libpcap to AIX ??
>
> I have attempted to compile etherape 5.6 for Linux under AIX using the toolbox and it does compile.  The problem I run into is that the buttons do not respond when clicked.  The errors seem to come from Glade and/or GTK.   As usuall, the etherape
> programs runs quite well under native Linux.  Etherape is a graphical network monitor which uses libpcap.
>
> Do you have any plans to port Ethereal,  NetSaint, or Ntop to AIX ??
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Pat Strode
>
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Re: [toolbox-l] AIX Toolbox for Linux - Etherape binary

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

We've had requests for a couple of things which use libpcap, so it's on the
list.  This is the first request for Etherape.  We've had multiple 
requests for Ethereal, but none for NetSaint or Ntop.  Commo isn't my area of 
expertise, but we'll enlist some help to flush out our offerings in that
area.  You can submit a "bug report" to request the tools at our
project page at http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/aixtoolbox
to help us remember the request.

Did you build etherape using run-time linking?  That is, did you specify
-brtl when you built it?  I assume that you did, since it was unlikely 
that you would be able to link successfully without it.

I'm not sure if glade has been used extensively - it could easily be a 
problem there.

P.S. I forwarded this to the new mailing list, 
aix...@os....

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have just installed the AIX Toolbox for Linux and gcc on one of our SP nodes at Cooper Power Systems.  It runs quite well.
> 
> Can you port etherape and libpcap to AIX ??
> 
> I have attempted to compile etherape 5.6 for Linux under AIX using the toolbox and it does compile.  The problem I run into is that the buttons do not respond when clicked.  The errors seem to come from Glade and/or GTK.   As usuall, the etherape
> programs runs quite well under native Linux.  Etherape is a graphical network monitor which uses libpcap.  
> 
> Do you have any plans to port Ethereal,  NetSaint, or Ntop to AIX ??
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Pat Strode
> 
> _______________________________________________
> aixtoolbox-list mailing list
> aix...@os...
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/mailman/listinfo/aixtoolbox-list
> 


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[toolbox-l] AIX Toolbox for Linux - Etherape binary

[Pat S. <ps...@co...>]

Hello,

I have just installed the AIX Toolbox for Linux and gcc on one of our SP nodes at Cooper Power Systems.  It runs quite well.

Can you port etherape and libpcap to AIX ??

I have attempted to compile etherape 5.6 for Linux under AIX using the toolbox and it does compile.  The problem I run into is that the buttons do not respond when clicked.  The errors seem to come from Glade and/or GTK.   As usuall, the etherape
programs runs quite well under native Linux.  Etherape is a graphical network monitor which uses libpcap.  

Do you have any plans to port Ethereal,  NetSaint, or Ntop to AIX ??

Thanks in advance,

Pat Strode

Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/README.txt

> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/03/2001 13:32:28 Marc Stephenson wrote:
> >First, make sure that you have the requisite software installed to fix=
> 
> >that dcopserver problem as described in the README:
> >
> >1. Make sure that you have the required AIX software installed.
> > =A0 Run the =A0following command to see if the required software is
> > =A0 installed:
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 lslpp -L X11.adt.lib X11.apps.xdm X11.samples.apps.client=
> s
> > =A0 If any of these are missing, install them from your AIX 4.3.3
> > =A0 installation media. =A0If you don't install X11.saamples.apps.cli=
> ents,
> > =A0 you will be missing iceauth, which is required to start kde2 -
> > =A0 you'll see messages about dcopserver.
> 
> 
> That was the key for me. KDE now working fine. But .. I "missed" the re=
> adme
> (is that surprising for a sw developer such as I am!). Out of interest
> where is it?
> 
> Nigel.
> =
> 
> 
> 


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Internet:  ma...@au...                          NOTES: ma...@us...
Phone:   512-327-5670                                              T/L 678-3189

Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[<JO...@uk...>]

On 07/03/2001 13:32:28 Marc Stephenson wrote:
>First, make sure that you have the requisite software installed to fix
>that dcopserver problem as described in the README:
>
>1. Make sure that you have the required AIX software installed.
>   Run the  following command to see if the required software is
>   installed:
>       lslpp -L X11.adt.lib X11.apps.xdm X11.samples.apps.clients
>   If any of these are missing, install them from your AIX 4.3.3
>   installation media.  If you don't install X11.saamples.apps.clients,
>   you will be missing iceauth, which is required to start kde2 -
>   you'll see messages about dcopserver.


That was the key for me. KDE now working fine. But .. I "missed" the readme
(is that surprising for a sw developer such as I am!). Out of interest
where is it?

Nigel.

Re: [toolbox-l] install-info missing

[Michael J. D. <mdo...@Mc...>]

I had the same problem.  You need to install the 'info' package.  You can
download it from the following URL if you don't already have it.

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html

- MJD





"Graeme Murray" <gra...@db...> on 03/08/2001 08:54:50 AM

To:   aix...@au...
cc:    (bcc: Michael J. Donahue/MCLEOD)
Subject:  [toolbox-l] install-info missing




Hi,
I have a AIX4.3.3 box and after installing rpm from CD, and trying "rpm -iv
./gnome.base/*" I get, /sbin/install-info is needed, but this is not on my box??
Should this have been part of the installp image for rpm ??

Thanks,
Graeme

Graeme Murray.
Distributed Systems Regional Unix Eng Manager.
Distributed Systems IBM Team Leader.
Deutsche Bank AG London.
Tele:     0207 5452893
Mobile: 07771515829.


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Re: [toolbox-l] install-info missingg

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

This has got to be the most frequently asked question.

You need to install the info RPM.  I've considered strongly slapping info into
the rpm.rte installp image because so many people have run into the problem.

P.S. The AIX Toolbox mailing list is now aix...@os...,
and there is a project page at 
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/aixtoolbox.

> 
> 
> Hi,
> I have a AIX4.3.3 box and after installing rpm from CD, and trying "rpm -iv ./gnome.base/*" I get, /sbin/install-info is needed, but this is not on my box??
> Should this have been part of the installp image for rpm ??
> 
> Thanks,
> Graeme
> 
> Graeme Murray.
> Distributed Systems Regional Unix Eng Manager.
> Distributed Systems IBM Team Leader.
> Deutsche Bank AG London.
> Tele:     0207 5452893
> Mobile: 07771515829.
> 
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Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[Paul C. <pa...@us...>]

If you are just looking for a way to use the CDE login panel with, well,
GNOME is what I've used so far, you can do the following:

1.  Add this to your $HOME/.dtprofile:
---- 8< ---- cut here ---- 8< ----
# If  you want to use $HOME/.xsession instead of just going into CDE,
uncomment...
if [ -x /usr/bin/gnome-session ]; then
     SESSIONTYPE=xdm
fi
---- 8< ---- end cut ---- 8< ----

2.  Then change your $HOME/.xsession as usual to run gnome-session.  (If
you don't have one, you can steal the default one from
/usr/lpp/X11/defaults/xinitrc.  Copy that file to $HOME/.xsession, and make
sure it is executable.)  Before the failsafe "exec mwm" at the end of the
file, insert the following:
---- 8< ---- cut here ---- 8< ----
if [ -x /usr/bin/gnome-session ]; then
     exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
fi

That's it!

This doesn't give you the easy ability to select which DE you want (you
would have to edit the .dtprofile and maybe the .xsession files), but it
does allow you the ability to use the CDE login panel, when the "Command
Line Login" feature, which many folks find very useful.

I haven't played enough with KDE to know how to do the same thing there,
but I suspect it is very similar, perhaps replace "gnome-session" with the
equivalent for KDE, above.  If someone figures it out, please post it here!

Paul Clarke


> I asked the CDE development team about this.  There is apparently no
> supported user-friendly way of adding sessions to dtlogin (yet).
>
> Marc

Forwarded message:
> We're going to publish KDE 2.1 soon, but we're going to do it at the
> same time that we align ourselves with future changes to libtool, which
> will allow our offerings to become compatible with the freeware offerings
> from Bull.  Unfortunately, there are some very low-level libraries which
> will change in a one-time-only binary incompatible fashion which will be
> painful for many of us.  I'm going to see what I can do to reduce the
> amount of trouble that it causes everyone.
>
> Marc
>
> >
> > On 07.03.01, Marc Stephenson wrote:
> > >=20
> > > I don't know much about CDE customization, though I'd start by
looking
> > > in the documentation for "sessions."  Maybe somebody else on the
> > > mailing list will chime in with a better answer.
> > >=20
> > We start with kdm as login manager, which per default in it's
> > session also shows 'CDE' besides KDE. So the users which still=20
> > want the CDE desktop can do this without problems.
> >  There is still one point why I would want to use dtlogin, and
> > that's the one with doing a 'command line login', login in
> > to the console, exit, and dtlogin automatically resumes the
> > X login window.=20
> > This is not possible with KDM and as the RS6k's don't allow
> > multiple consoles as a Linux box this is really annoying.
> > Reza, any news with KDE 2.1? Anything changed in this repect?
> >
> > Regards, Ralf
> > --=20
> >         Ralf Utermann

[toolbox-l] install-info missing

[Graeme M. <gra...@db...>]

Hi,
I have a AIX4.3.3 box and after installing rpm from CD, and trying "rpm -iv ./gnome.base/*" I get, /sbin/install-info is needed, but this is not on my box??
Should this have been part of the installp image for rpm ??

Thanks,
Graeme

Graeme Murray.
Distributed Systems Regional Unix Eng Manager.
Distributed Systems IBM Team Leader.
Deutsche Bank AG London.
Tele:     0207 5452893
Mobile: 07771515829.


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Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

I asked the CDE development team about this.  There is apparently no
supported user-friendly way of adding sessions to dtlogin (yet).

Marc

Forwarded message:
> From marc Wed Mar  7 09:34:38 2001
> Subject: Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity
> To: Ral...@Ph... (Ralf Utermann)
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:34:38 -0600 (CST)
> Cc: aix...@dw...
> Reply-To: ma...@au...
> In-Reply-To: <200...@ph...> from "Ralf Utermann" at Mar 07, 2001 04:28:24 PM
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2]
> Content-Length: 2157      
> 
> We're going to publish KDE 2.1 soon, but we're going to do it at the
> same time that we align ourselves with future changes to libtool, which
> will allow our offerings to become compatible with the freeware offerings
> from Bull.  Unfortunately, there are some very low-level libraries which
> will change in a one-time-only binary incompatible fashion which will be
> painful for many of us.  I'm going to see what I can do to reduce the 
> amount of trouble that it causes everyone.
> 
> Marc
> 
> > 
> > On 07.03.01, Marc Stephenson wrote:
> > >=20
> > > I don't know much about CDE customization, though I'd start by looking
> > > in the documentation for "sessions."  Maybe somebody else on the
> > > mailing list will chime in with a better answer.
> > >=20
> > We start with kdm as login manager, which per default in it's
> > session also shows 'CDE' besides KDE. So the users which still=20
> > want the CDE desktop can do this without problems.
> >  There is still one point why I would want to use dtlogin, and
> > that's the one with doing a 'command line login', login in
> > to the console, exit, and dtlogin automatically resumes the
> > X login window.=20
> > This is not possible with KDM and as the RS6k's don't allow
> > multiple consoles as a Linux box this is really annoying.
> > Reza, any news with KDE 2.1? Anything changed in this repect?
> > 
> > Regards, Ralf
> > --=20
> >         Ralf Utermann
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> >         Universit=E4t Augsburg, Institut f=FCr Physik   --   EDV-Betreuer
> >         Universit=E4tsstr.1            =20
> >         D-86135 Augsburg                     Phone:  +49-821-598-3231
> >         SMTP: Ral...@Ph...         Fax: -3411
> > _______________________________________________
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> > aix...@os...
> > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/mailman/listinfo/ai=
> > xtoolbox-list
> > 
> 
> 
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> Internet:  ma...@au...                          NOTES: ma...@us...
> Phone:   512-327-5670                                              T/L 678-3189
> 
> 


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Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

We're going to publish KDE 2.1 soon, but we're going to do it at the
same time that we align ourselves with future changes to libtool, which
will allow our offerings to become compatible with the freeware offerings
from Bull.  Unfortunately, there are some very low-level libraries which
will change in a one-time-only binary incompatible fashion which will be
painful for many of us.  I'm going to see what I can do to reduce the 
amount of trouble that it causes everyone.

Marc

> 
> On 07.03.01, Marc Stephenson wrote:
> >=20
> > I don't know much about CDE customization, though I'd start by looking
> > in the documentation for "sessions."  Maybe somebody else on the
> > mailing list will chime in with a better answer.
> >=20
> We start with kdm as login manager, which per default in it's
> session also shows 'CDE' besides KDE. So the users which still=20
> want the CDE desktop can do this without problems.
>  There is still one point why I would want to use dtlogin, and
> that's the one with doing a 'command line login', login in
> to the console, exit, and dtlogin automatically resumes the
> X login window.=20
> This is not possible with KDM and as the RS6k's don't allow
> multiple consoles as a Linux box this is really annoying.
> Reza, any news with KDE 2.1? Anything changed in this repect?
> 
> Regards, Ralf
> --=20
>         Ralf Utermann
> _____________________________________________________________________
>         Universit=E4t Augsburg, Institut f=FCr Physik   --   EDV-Betreuer
>         Universit=E4tsstr.1            =20
>         D-86135 Augsburg                     Phone:  +49-821-598-3231
>         SMTP: Ral...@Ph...         Fax: -3411
> _______________________________________________
> aixtoolbox-list mailing list
> aix...@os...
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/mailman/listinfo/ai=
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> 


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Internet:  ma...@au...                          NOTES: ma...@us...
Phone:   512-327-5670                                              T/L 678-3189

Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[Ralf U. <Ral...@Ph...>]

On 07.03.01, Marc Stephenson wrote:
> 
> I don't know much about CDE customization, though I'd start by looking
> in the documentation for "sessions."  Maybe somebody else on the
> mailing list will chime in with a better answer.
> 
We start with kdm as login manager, which per default in it's
session also shows 'CDE' besides KDE. So the users which still 
want the CDE desktop can do this without problems.
 There is still one point why I would want to use dtlogin, and
that's the one with doing a 'command line login', login in
to the console, exit, and dtlogin automatically resumes the
X login window. 
This is not possible with KDM and as the RS6k's don't allow
multiple consoles as a Linux box this is really annoying.
Reza, any news with KDE 2.1? Anything changed in this repect?

Regards, Ralf
-- 
        Ralf Utermann
_____________________________________________________________________
        Universität Augsburg, Institut für Physik   --   EDV-Betreuer
        Universitätsstr.1             
        D-86135 Augsburg                     Phone:  +49-821-598-3231
        SMTP: Ral...@Ph...         Fax: -3411

Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

First, make sure that you have the requisite software installed to fix
that dcopserver problem as described in the README:
   
1. Make sure that you have the required AIX software installed.
   Run the  following command to see if the required software is
   installed:
       lslpp -L X11.adt.lib X11.apps.xdm X11.samples.apps.clients
   If any of these are missing, install them from your AIX 4.3.3
   installation media.  If you don't install X11.saamples.apps.clients,
   you will be missing iceauth, which is required to start kde2 -
   you'll see messages about dcopserver.

2. Download and install X11 fixes from APAR IY15017 required to make
   KDE-2.0.1 start reliably (approximately 7MB required for download):
       $ ftp ftp.software.ibm.com
       ftp> cd aix/fixes/v4/X11
       ftp> bin
       ftp> prompt
       ftp> mget X11.base.lib.4.3.3.27.bff  X11.base.rte.4.3.3.10.bff
       ftp> quit
       $ inutoc .
       # To save disk space, you may want to specify -qacXgd on the next line
       $ installp -qaXgd . X11.base.lib 4.3.3.27 X11.base.rte 4.3.3.10

I don't know much about CDE customization, though I'd start by looking
in the documentation for "sessions."  Maybe somebody else on the
mailing list will chime in with a better answer.

Marc



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> Question - Am using AIX 4.3.3.25++ & have downloaded/installed much of =
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> 
> Having trouble getting KDE setup.
> 
> If I use CDE login manager I get the usual KDE inter-process/dpocserver =
> authentication problem
> If I use KDM I get a plain old non-KDE screen
> 
> I'd like to maintain use of the standard login manager (CDE) for all =
> users on system. Can you point at any "howto"s as to the best way of =
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[toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[Nigel J. <jo...@hu...>]

NB I'm an IBMr.

Question - Am using AIX 4.3.3.25++ & have downloaded/installed much of =
the linux affinity pack.

Having trouble getting KDE setup.

If I use CDE login manager I get the usual KDE inter-process/dpocserver =
authentication problem
If I use KDM I get a plain old non-KDE screen

I'd like to maintain use of the standard login manager (CDE) for all =
users on system. Can you point at any "howto"s as to the best way of =
achieving this (yes .. I'm trying to set it up myself!)

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[toolbox-l] Compile errors from GCC tools for AIX (aix43-000718)

[Mike A. <mi...@wr...>]

Greetings,

I just installed the GCC tools for AIX (aix43-000718).  I'm trying to
compile code that builds OK with GCC 2.95.2 on Solaris and Linux.  I'm
getting the following warnings:

In file included from atmemmgr.cpp:37:
/usr/include/pthread.h:113: warning: missing white space after `#define
PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER'
/usr/include/pthread.h:128: warning: missing white space after `#define
PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER'
/usr/include/pthread.h:147: warning: missing white space after `#define
PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER'
/usr/include/pthread.h:157: warning: missing white space after `#define
PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT'


Here is the header from the pthread.h file:

/* static char sccsid[] = "@(#)15       1.32.2.32
src/bos/usr/ccs/lib/libpthreads/pthread.h,           libpth, bos43R 11/24/99
12:02:08"; */
/*
 * COMPONENT_NAME: libpth
 * 
 * FUNCTIONS:
 * 
 * ORIGINS:  27, 71, 83
 * 
 * LEVEL 1, 5 Years Bull Confidential Information
 *
 * (c) Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC. 
 * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 
 *
 * OSF/1 1.2
 */




I edited the pthread.h file to add white space to the indicated lines so
that I could go further.  Then I hit this warning:

atmemmgr.cpp:1368: warning: format not a string literal, argument types not
checked

Here is the offending line from the source:

  fprintf(stderr,szBuf);

Again, this compiles fine with gcc 2.95.2 on Linux.  There doesn't seem to
be any way to turn off this warning.




What level is the compiler in this package?  Here is what I get from gcc -v

Reading specs from
/usr/gcc/aix43-000718/H-powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ib
m-aix4.3.3.0/2.9-aix43-000718/specs
gcc version 2.9-aix43-000718


Thanks,
Mike Allen
-----------
WRQ, Inc.
Seattle, WA 

206-217-7715

[toolbox-l] Re: apache and php

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

Since there is an Apache implementation delivered with AIX on the Expansion
Pack, we will probably not ship a separate version with the Toolbox.  We'll
be adding words to that effect to the web page and do the README.  If
there is a compelling reason to ship a vanilla apache, we can certainly
do that as well.

We're working on PHP now.

You can get the Apache implmentation from 
    http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/download.html

Marc
> 
> good morning,
> 
> i'm searching apache and php srm for aix
> 
> i want to install it on my rs6000 computer
> 
> how can i get it with installing instructions
> 
> 
> thanks !
> 
> Gilles Walschaerts 
> 


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[toolbox-l] Re: KDevelop

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

It looks like that it is part of KDE 2.1, so we would be likely to have it when
2.1 goes stable.  It wasn't included as part of the KDE 2.0.1 distribution.

Marc

> 
> Dear AIX-Linux Affinity team :
> 
> I have a question about KDE's development tools, hope it will not disturb
> too much ...
> 
> Are there already ported [kdevelop] tool in AIX4.x version ?
> If there is, why can't I found in AIX-Toolbox directory ?
> If there is not, do you have plan for this package ? And when will be exist
> in AIX-Toolbox directory ?
> 
> Best regards 
> Project Manager
> Frankie Lee 
> <mailto:fr...@wa...>
> <mailto:bi...@ms...>
> <mailto:fr...@fr...>
> Mobile:886-952994950 
> Mobile:886-930055526 
> Mobile:886-919272071 
> Wayia.Com Inc. 
> 7F,2,150 Lane,Sec.5,Hsin-I Rd.,Taipei,Taiwan,R.O.C. 
> Tel:886-2-87895691 Ext.8516
> Fax:886-2-87805522
> 
> 


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[toolbox-l] KDevelop

[<fr...@wa...>]

Dear AIX-Linux Affinity team :

I have a question about KDE's development tools, hope it will not disturb
too much ...

Are there already ported [kdevelop] tool in AIX4.x version ?
If there is, why can't I found in AIX-Toolbox directory ?
If there is not, do you have plan for this package ? And when will be exist
in AIX-Toolbox directory ?

Best regards 
Project Manager
Frankie Lee 
<mailto:fr...@wa...>
<mailto:bi...@ms...>
<mailto:fr...@fr...>
Mobile:886-952994950 
Mobile:886-930055526 
Mobile:886-919272071 
Wayia.Com Inc. 
7F,2,150 Lane,Sec.5,Hsin-I Rd.,Taipei,Taiwan,R.O.C. 
Tel:886-2-87895691 Ext.8516
Fax:886-2-87805522

[toolbox-l] Re: KDE Office Apps Working?

[Jeffery M. <jbm...@us...>]

Thanks for the command line tip, Reza Arbab.  Here is the error message returned.  Perhaps some environment variable 
is not being set in the new rpm builds, and you guys already have it set 
from previous installations?

Take a look at output below.

# which kword
/opt/freeware/kde/bin/kword
# kword &
[1]     18102
# koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: Office/kword.desktop: no 
X-KDE-NativeMimeType entry!
koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in 
kword's desktop file. Check your installation !
 
[1] +  Done(1)                 kword &
#

# which killustrator
/opt/freeware/kde/bin/killustrator
#  killustrator
koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: Office/killustrator.desktop: no 
X-KDE-NativeMimeType entry!
koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in 
killustrator's desktop file. Check your installation !
# find /opt -name 'Office' -ls 2>/dev/null
 8290    4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root     system        512 Feb 22 11:07 
/opt/freeware/kde/share/applnk/Office
178220    4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root     system        512 Feb 21 14:13 
/opt/freeware/kde/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Office
# ls -l /opt/freeware/kde/share/applnk/Office
total 56
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system       832 Oct 16 05:57 .directory
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system       962 Nov 03 18:18 kchart.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      1925 Nov 03 18:19 killustrator.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      3054 Nov 03 18:19 koshell.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      2297 Nov 03 18:19 kpresenter.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      1784 Nov 03 18:20 kspread.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      2424 Nov 03 18:20 kword.desktop
# ls -l /opt/freeware/kde/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Office
total 40
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system       758 Oct 12 02:56 .directory
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      1823 Nov 03 17:37 Applix.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      1313 Nov 03 17:37 XAcc.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      1397 Nov 03 17:37 XsLite.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system      1509 Nov 03 17:37 plan.desktop      # 
which killustrator
/opt/freeware/kde/bin/killustrator

# cd /opt/freeware/kde/share/applnk/Office
# pwd
/opt/freeware/kde/share/applnk/Office
# ls
.directory            koshell.desktop       kword.desktop
kchart.desktop        kpresenter.desktop
killustrator.desktop  kspread.desktop
# kspread
koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: Office/kspread.desktop: no 
X-KDE-NativeMimeType entry!
koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in 
kspread's desktop file. Check your installation !
#

[toolbox-l] Application failure

[<na...@uk...>]

Hi,
The following program (I am told) runs fine on Solaris and Linux.
If compiled with IBM VisualAge for C++ v5 is works too on AIX 4.3.3!

But with GNU gcc/g++/C++ it fails to complete most of the time.
It uses pthreads and lots of C++ new/malloc calls.

My customer regards this as a major weakness in AIX because they are
heavily commited to GNU C++
for their core application and this bug will stop them buying IBM pSeries
machines.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define MAX_THREADS 100
#define ITERATIONS 3
#define SLEEPTIME 3

void *ThreadFunction(void *In)
{
     int i, j;
     int val =(int) (int*) (In);
     for (i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i ++)
     {
          char *hello = NULL;
          for (j = 1; j <= 1000; j ++) {
               char *newhello = new char[j + 1];
               if (hello)
               {
                    strcpy(newhello, hello);
                    delete [ ] hello;
               }
               else
                    newhello[0] = 0;
               char *newa = new char[2];
               strcpy(newa, "A");
               strcat(newhello, newa);
               delete [ ] newa;
               hello = newhello;
          }
          //printf("%s - %d\n", hello, val);
          if (hello)
               delete [ ] hello;

          sleep(SLEEPTIME);
     }
     printf("%d\n", val);
     return In;
}

 main()
{
     int i;
     int ret;
     pthread_t hThread[100];
     pthread_attr_t attr;
     pthread_attr_init (&attr);
     pthread_attr_setscope (&attr, PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS);

     printf("Starting\n");
     for (i = 0; i < MAX_THREADS; i ++) {
          ret = pthread_create(&hThread[i], &attr, ThreadFunction,
(void*)i);
          if (ret != 0) {
               printf("Could not create main thread : UNIX error %d\n",
ret);
               return (-1);
          }
     }

     for (i = 0; i < MAX_THREADS; i ++)
     {
          pthread_join(hThread[i], NULL);
     }

return 1;
}
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The idebug debugger tells it crashes in pthread_mutexinit and a source code
 file called new2.cc - Eh!!

thanks Nigel Griffiths

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[toolbox-l] Additions to Toolbox (a2ps, mutt, procmail)

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

I've added a news item covering this information on the AIX Toolbox project
page, but I don't know how well that reaches people just yet.

There are a few few relatively new items in the Toolbox:
   mutt-1.2.5i            A text mode mail user agent
   procmail-3.14          The procmail mail processing program
   a2ps-4.12              GNU a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter
   
We're still having trouble getting timely updates to the web pages, so
go directly to the ftp server to get these for now:
    ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc
You'll find subdirectories for mutt, procmail, and a2ps there.

Marc
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Re: [toolbox-l] glib and gnome-libs problems

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

I'm adding the following section to the README.txt regarding this
subject:


  Building against many libraries requires the use of run-time linking (-rtl)

Due to cross-library codependencies, several of the libraries delivered with
the Toolbox are built using run-time linking in order to allow the
dependencies between libraries to be resolved at run-time.  Some library 
references could not be resolved without employing run-time linking.  
When there is a shared object delivered with the toolbox which is not
associated with a .a file, it is likely that it was built with run-time
linking enabled.  When you attempt to use one of these libraries you need
to use the -rtl option to the linker (this is commonly enabled at the configure
step by the use of LDFLAGS="-Wl,-brtl" for gcc, and LDFLAGS="-brtl" for vac/xlc.
Unless you use -rtl, the linker will not search for the required .so files 
to resolve the shared object dependencies.

The following packages were built using run-time linking technology:
     ORBit control-center enlightenment fnlib gdk-pixbuf gimp
     glade glib gnome-core gnome-libs gnome-pim gnome-print
     gnome-utils gnorpm gnotepad+ gnumeric gtk+ gtk-engines imlib
     kdeadmin kdebase kdegames kdegraphics kdelibs kdemultimedia
     kdenetwork kdepim kdesupport kdetoys kdeutils koffice
     libglade libgtop librep libtool mc ncftp rep-gtk rpm sawfish

So, if you are trying to use glib or gtk+, you must use run-time linking
to link your program.

> 
> All,
> 
> I've been working with the rpm packages and third party software
> (balsa-1.1.1) and have noticed a couple of things.  First, glib is not
> usable by other software packages.  I've searched for the problem, but no
> luck.  My only way around it was to install Bull's freeware version of glib
> and set LIBPATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/opt/freeware/lib.  Grab a copy of
> balsa or archimedes and run ./configure to see the error.
> 
> Secondly, the same package (balsa-1.x.x) requires gnome-libs of at least
> 1.2.1.  The toolbox has version 1.2.0.  Are there plans to release and
> updated version?  I tried to build the latest version myself, but again I
> ran into a glib problem.
> 
> I also can see the potential this toolbox offers.  Looking forward to
> building with these toolkits.
> 
> David Edge
> de...@ak...
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