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- From: markm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Mark McCafferty)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: gnu and etc questions
- Summary: gnu problems
- Message-ID: <3192@iris.mincom.oz.au>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 00:01:16 GMT
- Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
- Lines: 46
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- I have a number of questions about the gnu products I have recently
- installed.
-
- 1. gnuman - despite my best efforts, I cannot get this to find my man
- pages. I have configured manpath.cfg to point to the necessary places
- and my path also contains the parent directory of the man directory.
- What else need I do?
-
- 2. gnused - I can only get this to work using a script file and the -f option.
- Running even the simplest on line command
-
- echo abc def | sed 's/abc/ABC/'
-
- causes sed to say "unknown command". The same script as a file works OK.
-
- 3. glib - how do I find out what libraries contain what? I was looking
- for chmod and glib'd and grep'ed all the supplied libraries, with no
- success. It must be there somewhere, surely, even if it is just a
- stub.
-
- 4. gcc - where are _system and _fork? They keep turning up as unresolved. When
- I try to recompile the supplied sources for gnu products (eg gnuman, gnused) they do not compile and link cleanly. Why not?
-
- 5. link386 - how do I get usage on this? Can it use a response file? It does
- not appear to be in the OS/2 help stuff.
-
- 6. gnumake - if this produces a response file for lines longer than 100 chars
- and the program running cannot use a reposnse file, what do I do?
-
- 7. does either OS/2 or gcc define a standard #define to identify itself?
-
- 8. are there any porting guides for Un*x -> OS/2?
-
- 9. libman - are there any OS/2 specific changes made to these man pages? What
- routines/functions have no corresponding OS/2 equivalent (eg getuid)? How
- do I find out what they are? How are they handled?
-
- 10. where is putenv?
-
- 11. Where is __EMX__ defined? How do I tell that the code will dynamic link?
-
- thanks a lot for any help
- mark
-
- PS This is in no way a complaint about the gnu ports. Without them life
- would be pretty straight!
-