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Date:Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:21:23 +0000 (UTC) 
Subject:Re: Eliminating termcap (Was: Re: 15.53 - Windows Installer Available) 
From:A . Sloman 
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Luc Beaudoin wrote:

> Many thanks, Aaron. That worked!

Many thanks for testing it so soon and reporting the result.

> I have installed the new poplog (v15.53.e) on Mandrake Linux 9.0,

I guess that means it should work on other systems that lack termcap.

> It worked like a charm.

Another example of the benefits of open source and collaboration accross
the net. If Steve Isard in Edinburgh had not done a bit of investigation
and reported the results I would not have realised how simple it would
be to fix the termcap problem. (It turned out even simpler than that!
The fixes took a matter of minutes. Most of my work was altering
documentation, repackaging the tar files, downloading them and checking
them out on my machine at home.

> I couldn't detect any noteworthy output from
> the log file, which I have made available here for anyone who needs to
> compare with their own.
>
> http://diamond.iat.sfu.ca/poplog/news/v15.53e_mandrake9.0_log.txt

Thanks, that may be a useful reference point for people having problems
with installation in future.

That file also confirms that the workaround making it unnecessary for
the user to set up symbolic links for motif in /usr/X11R6/lib/ also
worked:

    Motif libXm.so.2 found and linked to $popexternlib/libXm.so

If you are going to use only the Birmigham environment you can save some
space (about 4.5Mbytes) by deleting the files in $usepop/pop/lib/psv/

Likewise, if you don't want common lisp, pml or prolog you can delete
some of the saved images in $poplocalbin. (They can always be re-created
using scripts in $poplocal/local/com/mk*.local )


> It may be premature for me to say this, but if I can steer my project
> in the right direction, I may be able to fund porting Poplog to OS X.

The core cpu-dependent files should be there in the AIX + PPC version of
poplog. So by taking the CPU specific files from those sources plus
the non-cpu specific files from the PC+linux sources, it should be
possible to get very close to an OS X port. But it will have to be
cross-compiled from a working system, and until it runs on the target
machine well enough to do further bootstrapping, the process may be
somewhat tedious.

Whenever anyone is ready, I can make a tar file containing the files in
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/src/master/C.power/
        (Those are the PowerPC-specific files.)
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/src/master/S.powaix/
        (The complete sources for PowerPC + AIX, but no binaries).


Aaron