Re: gnome issues with Tru64

[Aron Griffis <agriffis bigfoot com>]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 12:43:07PM -0800, George wrote:
> Yes, send a mail again to gnome-devel with your report on the 1.1.2
> when it comes out.  We're very interested in it working correctly on
> other platforms, and hopefully by 1.2, you'll be able to
> ./configure; make; make install :)

Here are the issues persistent with GNOME on Tru64 UNIX as of 1.1.2.

### gnome-core-1.1.2 ###

(1) Please upgrade to libtool-1.3.4, which supports shared libraries
    on Tru64 UNIX 5.x.

	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.3.4.tar.gz

    The workaround is to install libtool-1.3.4 locally, and do

	cp /usr/local/share/libtool/* .

    before running configure.

(2) configure doesn't detect nm correctly.  This is a problem in
    autoconf.  The workaround is to configure with

	NM="/usr/bin/nm -B" ./configure

    The problem is that configure executes nm on /dev/null, then greps
    for "/dev/null" in the resulting error.  In previous versions of
    Digital UNIX, this worked because it would report

	/usr/bin/nm: Error: /dev/null is not an object

    In 5.x, nm says instead

	/usr/bin/nm: Invalid file or object type

    This is arguably inconsistent with the BSD version of nm (I don't
    know why it has changed), but I might also argue that it's a
    pretty weak test... :-)

### gnome-applets-1.1.2 ###

(1) Both issues present in gnome-core-1.1.2 are also problematic in
    gnome-applets-1.1.2

(2) config.h requires the following patch after running ./configure.
    Both int64_t and u_int64_t are present in
    /usr/include/sys/bitypes.h, so the defines in config.h break
    compilation.

--- config.h.old        Mon Jan 31 17:09:51 2000
+++ config.h    Mon Jan 31 17:22:50 2000
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@
 /* #undef HAVE_LIBGTOP_SMP */
 
 /* Define if there is no `u_int64_t' and `int64_t'. */
-#define u_int64_t unsigned long long int
-#define int64_t signed long long int
+/* #define u_int64_t unsigned long long int */
+/* #define int64_t signed long long int */
 
 /* LibGTop major, minor and micro version. */
 #define LIBGTOP_MAJOR_VERSION 1

(3) It is still necessary to do the following prior to compilation:

    find . -name Makefile \
	| xargs perl -0777 -i -pe 's/^INTLLIBS =.*/INTLLIBS = -lintl/m'

(4) modemlights does not compile, due to problems with ifreq.  I
    started to investigate, but got distracted by work and ended up
    just commenting it out from the Makefile for re-investigation at a
    later date.

(5) There was a valiant effort made in gnotes to remove gcc
    dependency, however the following patch is still required to make
    it compile with an ANSI compiler.  (Not even gcc will concatenate
    a pointer and string literal... :-)

--- gnome-applets-1.1.2/gnotes/gnotes_applet.h.old	Wed Jan 26 21:02:30 2000
+++ gnome-applets-1.1.2/gnotes/gnotes_applet.h	Mon Jan 31 23:19:49 2000
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
 /* uncomment this to turn on debugging */
 /* #define GNOTE_DEBUG (1) */
 
+#include <gnome.h>
+#include <applet-widget.h>
+#include "config.h"
+
 #ifdef __GNUC__
 #ifdef GNOTE_DEBUG
 #  define g_debug(format, args...) \
@@ -39,14 +43,19 @@
 #define g_info(format, args...) \
   g_log(G_LOG_DOMAIN, G_LOG_LEVEL_INFO, "GNotes: "format, ##args)
 #else /* !__GNUC__ */
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdarg.h>
 static void
 g_debug (const gchar *format,
 	 ...)
 {
 #ifdef GNOTE_DEBUG
   va_list args;
+  gchar s[1024];
   va_start (args, format);
-  g_logv (G_LOG_DOMAIN, G_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG, "GNotes: "format, args);
+  strcpy (s, "GNotes: ");
+  strncat (s, format, sizeof(s)-strlen(s)-1);
+  g_logv (G_LOG_DOMAIN, G_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG, s, args);
   va_end (args);
 #endif
 }
@@ -55,8 +64,11 @@
 	    ...)
 {
   va_list args;
+  gchar s[1024];
   va_start (args, format);
-  g_logv (G_LOG_DOMAIN, G_LOG_LEVEL_CRITICAL, "GNotes: "format, args);
+  strcpy (s, "GNotes: ");
+  strncat (s, format, sizeof(s)-strlen(s)-1);
+  g_logv (G_LOG_DOMAIN, G_LOG_LEVEL_CRITICAL, s, args);
   va_end (args);
 }
 static void
@@ -64,16 +76,15 @@
 	...)
 {
   va_list args;
+  gchar s[1024];
   va_start (args, format);
-  g_logv (G_LOG_DOMAIN, G_LOG_LEVEL_INFO, "GNotes: "format, args);
+  strcpy (s, "GNotes: ");
+  strncat (s, format, sizeof(s)-strlen(s)-1);
+  g_logv (G_LOG_DOMAIN, G_LOG_LEVEL_INFO, s, args);
   va_end (args);
 }
 #endif
 
-
-#include <gnome.h>
-#include <applet-widget.h>
-#include "config.h"
 
 /* various actions */
 #define GNOTES_SAVE    "Save Notes"

Thanks for the good work on 1.1.2!

Aron

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