January 2005 - Openoffice-os4 - Studentersamfundet

CSH status update.
by Peter Bengtsson 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

After installing gcc-3.4.0 and configuring it to use clib2 (with a severely kludged specs file), I have now tried to compile every source file in the tcsh source distribution as a quick way to determine the feasibility of porting it. I am happy to write that with a few exception it seems the tcsh source is _relatively_ portable. The main areas which seem to need a bit of work are the following: * termios * missing signals * resource limits * multi-user support * fork()/vfork() Of these, only the missing signals and fork()/vfork() appears to pose any significant problem and as a positive side-effect, we might contribute further to the development of clib2 (just an idea). The ixemul-compiled tcsh binary is extremely unstable on my machine and crashes randomly, usually in less than 15 seconds. It does, however, appear to handle csh scripts - which the older csh implementation did not (it only handled a subset). Unfortunately, this still does not indicate if it would be easier to write our own intepreter or not. -Peter aka. Archprogrammer, still investigating. PS: If this is uninteresting, just tell me and I will stop posting status updates here. Reality is for people who cannot face ScienceFiction. Only lefthanded people are in their right minds.

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Perl Dependancy
by Mark bond 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

There was a message posted on the IBrowse mailing list that holds some information that I think is usefull to this project: message here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ibrowse/message/12294 Basically saying that Stefan and Andrija have been working on AmiSSL3 for 68k and OS4 but that it required perl which in turn requires ixemul, and that they have had to "sort it out" for OS4, whether this means that perl has been ported (using ixemul) for OS4 or straight to OS4 I dont know, but it does seem likely that Perl is available (or will be shortly) for OS4, and perl is a requirement for OpenOffice.org. It would be good if we can get confirmation of this (Rogue/Entilzha)? Thanks Mark

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IRC Meeting thursday 3 Februari 2005
by Christophe Ochal 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hello, I'd like us to discuss the usage of the CVS server next meeting. Kind regards -- Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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Unsuccesfull subscriber
by Christophe Ochal 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hello, Olegil, could you check this? Belxjander was unable to subscribe to the ml. His email is: belxjander_serechai at yahoo dot co dot nz Kind regards

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Contact List on dev.aoo.org ?
by Jürgen Schober 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hi all! Can it be that we are 4 people registered on the contact list of the dev site ? Are the others to shy to edit your contact page there ? Would be good to know who's on the project from time to time... -- Jürgen Schober 7900 E. Princess Drv. #1273 Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, USA http://www.pointdesign.com juergen.schober(a)pointdesign.com cell: +1-602-373-7092

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GCC 3.4 env for Classic now available on kefren.be
by Christophe Ochal 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hello, For those of you still using classic, on http://www.kefren.be you can get GCC 3.4 Updater for my GCC Installer script. Kind regards -- Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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csh update
by Jürgen Schober 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Just to let you know. OS4 native csh runs. Well, sort of. I didn't expect the executeable to run because I have still things to do. But nonetheless, I just started it...and, voila, it really runs. It crashes after a command execution (simply stops after a GrimReaper/Ignore), but the command executed properly ;) To be honest, I would have expected a fatal crash, but it didn't. Cool. -- Jürgen Schober 7900 E. Princess Drv. #1273 Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, USA http://www.pointdesign.com juergen.schober(a)pointdesign.com cell: +1-602-373-7092

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stch_l replacement ?
by Jürgen Schober 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hi! Is there a replacement for stch_l available somewehere, which works with gcc ? Can someone give me some detalils, how stch_l works ? (a hex string to dec, ok, but what formats are supported? 0x... ?) thx Jürgen -- Jürgen Schober 7900 E. Princess Drv. #1273 Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, USA http://www.pointdesign.com juergen.schober(a)pointdesign.com cell: +1-602-373-7092

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File Upload - Help.
by Paul Heams 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hi guys, I'm trying to upload an lha file to the project page (aspell for OS4 for testing). It was sent as an attachment to the aspell project on dev.aoo but it never appeared! Is there something I'm doing wrong? Cheers, Paul Heams.

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General progress
by Peter Bengtsson 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

I thought it might be time for a little progress report again so you all have something to read. :-) After performing preliminary investigations of NAS and its source-structure the prospects of porting it look relatively good. The code itself seems modular enough that there will be no undue problem with re-directing it to AHI. Preliminary portability rating: 5/10 (where 1=almost unportable and 10=trivial to port) Investigations will continue. As for the quality of existing ports, I have not opted to begin by reading up on Amiga development and attempting to get up to speed with v50+ before writing test programs to ascertain the usefulness of the existing ports. Happy progress! -Peter aka. Archprogrammer Reality is for people who cannot face ScienceFiction. Only lefthanded people are in their right minds.

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