Re: tn5250 release

[Brian Hill <tn5250@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Rich wrote:
> I'll do all these steps after we have verified that the code is what we 
> actually want to release.  In light of that, I've created a potential 
> release tarball by fixing the slang Makefile.am and running 'make dist'. 
> Could you and anyone else please check that this behaves the way we 
> expect?  Download this test tarball at:
>
> http://www.eaerich.com/tn5250-0.17.4.tar.gz
>
> If there are any problems with the build, I'd like to fix them now before 
> making any change to the CVS tags.
>   
I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and when I run the configure script
it works but I get a warning:

config.status: WARNING:  xt5250.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting

When I run "make" everything behaves as I expect.

When I run "make install" everything behaves as I expect.

However when I actually execute "xt5250 PGHILLBA" (I have PGHILLBA
defined in ~/.tn5250rc) I get an error message telling me:

error while loading shared libraries: lib5250.so.0: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory

If I manually move lib5250.so.0 and lib5250.so.0.0.0 from /usr/local/lib
to /usr/lib/ I no longer get that error message and xt5250 works.

On another machine that has tn5250 installed via the Ubuntu repositories
I find that lib5250.so.0 and lib5250.so.0.0.0 are installed in
/usr/lib/tn5250.  Oddly enough, if I create a /usr/lib/tn5250 directory
on my initial machine and move lib5250.so.0 and lib5250.so.0.0.0 from
/usr/lib/ to /usr/lib/tn5250 xt5250 stops working.  I don't get an error
message, I see a brief flash when it opens a new terminal window which
closes immediately and leaves me at the command line.

I have no idea if this is the kind of problem you're talking about James
and Scott or if you're just meaning the configure/make part of the
process.  I appreciate the time and effort you two and everyone else has
put into tn5250!

Thanks,
Brian