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Subject: Re: CKermit 6.1beta rpm?
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In article <70kpvd$7mu$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu says...
>
>In article <70ju4k$567$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>,
>Jim Osborn <jimo@eskimo.com> wrote:
>:
>: Thought I'd close the loop with this thread, which I started after
>: seeing an ominous remark by Frank, implying that I might need the
>: beta version with a new Linux distribution.
>:
>: I'm happy to report that my good old C-Kermit 6.0.192, straight
>: off the CD that came with the Using C-Kermit book in late 1997,
>: compiled just fine with my S.u.S.E 5.3 distribution. I had to
>: tell the linker that the lcurses and ltermcap libs were in their
>: own directories in /usr/lib, and open up some permissions in /var/lock.
>:
>: So, the moral is, don't panic. :)
>:
>To some extent -- some people have trouble, some don't. I can't
>necessarily keep up with all the variations in the many Linux
>distributions and versions of them. What was the Right Way to do a
>particular one day often becomes Horribly Wrong the next.
>
>Nonstandard items that were added to C-Kermit for early versions Linux to
>allow such features as hardware flow control and high serial speeds are
>now verboten. There is the curses vs ncurses naming problem, not to
>mention library version skew. There are evidently issues related to glibc
>vs libc and who knows what else, plus the neverending circus of /dev/cux
>vs /dev/ttySx vs /dev/modem vs UUCP lockfiles.
>
>C-Kermit 6.1 adapts to modern Linuxes by compiling out the nonstandard
>device-related code and using more-or-less regular POSIX constructs if you
>choose the "make linux" target. Targets (with accompanying #ifdefs) are
>still present for older versions. As far as I know, however, the 6.1
>Beta.05 "make linux" target works for Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, and SuSE
>-- if this is a misimpression, now would be a good time for me to find out.
>
>In particular, you say "I had to tell the linker that the lcurses and
>ltermcap libs were in their own directories in /usr/lib..." So what
>directory are they in? Is this a SuSE peculiarity? Or did all the
>packagers move these libraries? Do we now need separate makefile entries
>for SuSE, Red Hat, etc?
Speaking as a user of RedHat 5.1, the make linux" target works just fine. I
ran into no problems compliling from the C-Kermit 6.1 source code.