Re: oleo-is anyone there?

[Howard]

Sorry about that mispost forgot to paste new stuff, duh, found below here

Wojciech Komornicki wrote:

> > > > > > "Howard" == Howard  <address@hidden>
> > > > > > "wnk" == Wojciech Komornicki  <address@hidden>
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>  Howard:> Looking at the archives, I wondered if anyone at all looks at this 
> list.
>  Howard:>
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>  wnk:> I am subscribed to the list but there has been no activity for a long
>  wnk:> time.
>  wnk:> --
>  wnk:> Wojtek
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>  Howard:> I was wondering, they ought to clean that mess up.
>  Howard:> I am new to linux (4months) and have RH9 installed on an old  AMD k6-2
>  Howard:> 300mhz laptop with win98 dual boot.  I only have 2gb (+-) hd space to
>  Howard:> use for linux.  I am trying minimal apps like fluxbox (which is
>  Howard:> nice),midnight commander, etc., and I wanted to try oleo.
>  Howard:> I have been trying to compile oleo and am running into problems in the
>  Howard:> make phase. I am going to update the gcc stuff I have installed, and 
> see
>  Howard:> if that helps. I  googled a couple of the errors and found that others
>  Howard:> had similar problems. I subscribed here to see if I could see 
> something
>  Howard:> in archives, but after going back aways, got tired of sorting through
>  Howard:> the junk.
>  Howard:> So have there been similar problems posted here?
>  Howard:> Thanks, Howard
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> I compiled oleo on a SUN Sparc station a couple of years ago.  I
> remember having some problems but finally resolved them.  I have not
> used oleo for a long time since it did not have what I needed and other
> tools offered me what I did.  Let me know if you cannot figure things
> out and I will try to resurect my efforts.
> --
> Wojtek
>  
Well , if it won't bore you too much I can embarrass myself and explain 
what I have been learning about unarchiving and compiling and then 
creating anrpm for my rh9. Your probably Debian and I heard all about 
the ease of apt-get , ok, ok, I'm determined to tough out this rh9 for 
now. Maybe you can get a laugh out of this. hahaha I am. As I said 
before I am definitely a newbie to Linux.
Anyhow I dld'd oleo a couple of weeks ago to try out. It's the only 
terminal spreadsheet I've seen, know of others? This is only the second 
thing I have unarch'd and compiled. The last (xisp) went smoothly and 
while I was amazed at what was going on, I only got a glimpse of the 
process. Oleo has been a different experience. Un-gz and un-tar went ok 
, but ./configure quickly quit after returning some error lines.
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
I suprise myself now (a couple of days later) at not knowing what they 
meant. duh A post to my lug (address@hidden) began to 
enlighten/remind me that I did not even have gcc installed in my minimal 
install. The crummy redhat gui rpm installer's minimum development tools 
install would take 17?mb and I only have 200mb headspace on the whopping 
2gb linux half of this hd. So I have been picking the individual 
packages and learning how to use rpm on the command line. Thus far I 
have installed-
--------------------050726 reinstalling components for 
compiling----------------------
4,518,355 Feb 25 2003 gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
1,902,283 Feb 25 2003 gcc-c++-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
1,273,366 Feb 25 2003 libstdc++-devel-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm dependency
188,480 Feb 24 2003 bison-1.35-6.i386.rpm
66,245 Feb 24 2003 ncurses-c++-devel-5.3-4.i386.rpm
681,193 Feb 24 2003 ncurses-devel-5.3-4.i386.rpm
482,405 Feb 24 2003 ncurses4-5.0-11.i386.rpm
6 files -Total Add'l Pkgs- 8,629,922
(who knows how much it blew up to be)
I started with the first three above and was getting these kinds of errors-
>> /bin/sh: line 1: yacc: command not found <<So I found aout about bison
>> /src/io-curses.c:116: undefined reference to `wmove'
>> /src/io-curses.c:125: undefined reference to `waddch' << which 
alerted me to ncurses and libs
And the latest hurdle is -
---------<snip from end of make>------------------
gcc -g -O2 -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" 
-DBUILD_PREFIX='"'/usr/local'"' -o oleo parse.o byte-compile.o 
..<snip>.. legend.o ../intl/libintl.a ../lib/liboleo.a ../intl/libintl.a 
-lm -lncurses -L/usr/local/lib
io-term.o(.text+0x5b3): In function `save_preferences':
/home/hlenderk/oleo/oleo-1.99.16/src/io-term.c:379: undefined reference 
to `errno'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [oleo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hlenderk/oleo/oleo-1.99.16/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hlenderk/oleo/oleo-1.99.16'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
-----which I have seen that newer things have a problem with the old 
errno line in configure file (I'm guessing) -ie:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2004-02/msg00215.html
> 
http://www.compusys.co.uk/Compusys/HPC/Cluster+Admin+Tips/Compilation+errors+with+GCC+Version+3.2+and+Open+PBS+version+2.3.16.htm
> version 2.9 of the GCC compiler stricter over declaring external 
references.
> Undefined reference to ‘errno’
> Once common error is to use the phrase: > extern int errno;
> in c code rather than the correct method of: > #include <errno.h>
> To fix this problem cd to the directory which includes the source 
code and type command:
> grep -rs “extern int errno” *
> files return having the line, replace with correct version shown 
above..."----
>> WTF is going on here? I don't know enough about this to fix it but 
I'd be grateful for any pointers
try including #include '<linux/errno.h>'.
You should include '/usr/src/linux_x_y_z/include' include and not the 
just '/usr/include' while working with modules.Raghu

So That's where I am, about to look for a line like that in the 
configure file, I guess.
Are you laughing yet? What do you think?
Thanks, Howard

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