Re: Tn5250 compile under IBM Aix 5.3

On Thu, 13 May 2010, Scott Klement wrote:

> Sourceforge isn't going to let you use rsh, even if you find it.  It's
> too insecure.  Either use SSH (required for developer access) or pserver.

Yes, I already knew that, but had forgotten due to the fact that I always 
the appropriate environment varialbes set on my linux syste.  It has been 
a long time since I ran cvs on something else.

> This probably won't work from a 5250 terminal, because CVS will want
> your password for ssh to log in...  but if you run it from a real Unix
> terminal (I use PuTTY from windows, you could simply use xterm from
> Linux) it should work okay.

ssh won't work anytime you connect to a different system due to the fact 
that it asks if the key is correct.  Connecting only to known hosts and 
using key authentication would probably work, but otherwise using ssh to 
connect to remote hosts from QP2TERM won't work.

>> 2. ./autogen.sh doesn't work because it can't find autoreconf.  Again,
>> this appears to be a failing of the PASE environment (or my installation
>> of the tools).
>
> I haven't tried installing these tools on IBM i for PASE...  can't
> comment there.

While I still can't get ./autogen.sh to work because of missing 
autoreconf, I am almost done creating autoconf tests for AIX.  With 
appropriate preprocessor variables define we should be able to protect the 
accept member of the Tn5250Stream structure.

It looks like malloc() isn't the only library function that is weird on 
AIX.  We're going to have to handle snprintf and a couple of others.

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
 	- Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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