[nos-bbs] JNOS (any NOS) and Fedora Core 5 - the bottom line.

[Tim Gorman]

Yep, it compiles and runs on Suse 9.1 with glib 2.3.3. So it seems to be a 
glib 2.4 and up problem(?). Since there isn't anything I need out of a higher 
Suse version for this application, it works for me.

tim ab0wr

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 21:07, Bob Tenty wrote:
> >I suspect that glibc2.3.x systems work OK (I don't have one at this
> > moment).
>
> Skip,
>
> I can confirm that it compiles without problem with glibc 2.3
>
> (Jnos, without INP3 of course )
>
> That is on Mandriva/Mandrake 2006  with glibc 2.3.5 and gcc 4.01
>
> 73,
>
> Bob VE3TOK
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: George (Skip) VerDuin
>   To: ab0wr at ab0wr.net ; TAPR xNOS Mailing List
>   Sent: May 30, 2006 9:35 PM
>   Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] JNOS (any NOS) and Fedora Core 5 - the bottom
> line.
>
>
>   AAARRG Tim,
>
>   You have just both saved me from experimentation and doused my hopes in
> SUSE salvation. SUSE 10 was my target distro to work out of my FC-5
> dilemma.
>   Thank you very much for your report - I think...
>
>   I find it interesting that jnos compiled on slackware at an ealier time
> can run OK. --> I use Slackware pre-compiled jnos2.0d successfully with
> FC-5 & glibc2.4 (several variants of "d"). It is only when: <>
>   a.. jnos2.0e on Slackware 9.1 uses gcc3.2.3
>   a.. also FC-2 with gcc3.2.5
>   a.. You compile on SUSE-10
>   a.. I compile jnos2.0e on FC-5 & gcc4.1
>   that the engineering change shows up for glibc2.4.
>   I suspect that glibc2.3.x systems work OK (I don't have one at this
> moment).
>
>   This of course suggests that jnos"e" version introduced the longjmp into
> ksubr.c while at the same time gcc designers were changing longjmp
> specifications applied in (recent?) c version releases. But I'm a newcomer
> and don't know the version history well enough to speak to a whole story.
> Maiko clearly has done homework with FC-5 and gotten the same problem
> definition as I did.
>
>   I see some solution options for myself:
>     1.. Find another (old & cheap?) computer for the jnos2.0e testbed on a
> older Linux with gcc3.x and glib2.3.x 2.. Continue with jnos2.0d until 2.0x
> solves this issue (Maiko - please do not see this as pressure from the user
> community) 3.. Find a way to support both glib2.3 & glib2.4 on FC-5
> simultaneously and I am looking toward #3 because it addresses other issues
> for the long haul... Today I have no solution in hand - my doc project
> slows down if I choose #2...
>
>   Of interest?
>   see Linux Journal June 2006 etc/rant: "Bottom line - if you're already a
> Fedora fan, you'll want Core 5.  If you use anything else, now is not the
> time to switch."  Emphasis by me.
>
>   I want to echo your sentiments "always something" and "kudos Maiko" and
> "isn't urgent". Seems right to me.
>
>   On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 13:52 -0500, Tim Gorman wrote: