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Programming / Re: Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: June 21, 2024, 09:06:19 am »

Which drive are you working on ?

And what does UNIXROOT env var set to ?

How did you install your auto-tools ?

Where is your `sh' from ?

Hello mate,
UNIXROOT points to D: drive where I put usr/ directory and every relevant subdirectory.
auto-tools installed via ANPM and worked fine until this suddendly happened.

Also, sh, ash and ksh come with the standard development tools gotten via ANPM.

Can't get a clue of what's changed, but one day a configure script was perfect, the next day this error pops up from the very same script. Since then, no success in generating makefiles.

Mind you, CMake works, make works, so if I can arrange or modify an existing makefile I'm fine and everything works well (doesn't mean I get a really useful executable 100% of the times, but this is normal in porting software).

So I'm guessing a system reinstall may be useful...

Mentore

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Programming / Re: Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: June 20, 2024, 01:05:55 pm »

And what shell are you using?

KO, Dave, thanks.

Perl installed and I'm using sh as default shell.
The really really strange thing is that everything used to work until someday this happened.
And I really can't understand why 

I wonder if this has something to do with a certain clean.exe software I installed in lieu of the already present one in /usr/bin, but I don't know what the correlation may be.
I'll try something this morning changing che autotools with the latest version provided by KO and report back.

The toolchain works, by the way - I was able to recreate an OS/2 version of ZesarUX (https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux), a really interesting multi machines emulator under SDL. It seems OS/2 finally has his Sinclair QL emulator 

Thanks again!
Mentore

Re-quoting myself.
I am still in the midst of this... I edited libtoolize, aclocal, autoconf, autoreconf and some other files to remove every instance of the string "/@unixroot" since it seemed to cause troubles.
Trying to run autoconf, autoreconf and aclocal from scripts and command line I always receive the same error in aclocal:

From ksh

Running aclocal
Can't open perl script "exe": No such file or directory
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 2
Error: aclocal failed

Similar error occur if I try from sh or ash. I'm starting to get frustrated, since everything worked great before...

Maybe a complete system reinstallation would be needed. I'll think about that.
Mentore

48

Programming / Re: Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: June 20, 2024, 07:53:25 am »

And what shell are you using?

KO, Dave, thanks.

Perl installed and I'm using sh as default shell.
The really really strange thing is that everything used to work until someday this happened.
And I really can't understand why 

I wonder if this has something to do with a certain clean.exe software I installed in lieu of the already present one in /usr/bin, but I don't know what the correlation may be.
I'll try something this morning changing che autotools with the latest version provided by KO and report back.

The toolchain works, by the way - I was able to recreate an OS/2 version of ZesarUX (https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux), a really interesting multi machines emulator under SDL. It seems OS/2 finally has his Sinclair QL emulator 

Thanks again!
Mentore

49

Programming / Re: GCC - updates

« on: June 18, 2024, 08:14:27 am »

I'm looking forward to it!

Me too!
As soon as I can get back autotools working I'll definitely try it.
Mentore

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Programming / Re: Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: June 12, 2024, 02:03:11 pm »

Another attempt, this time after re-installing autoconf and automake: this time I receive

sh /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi
/usr/bin/autoreconf.: /@unixroot/usr/bin/perl: not found

Getting kind of lost here...

Mentore

51

Programming / Re: Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: June 06, 2024, 04:07:44 pm »

Bringing up this thread with some little more information.

I'm trying to autoreconf this HP48 emulator (x48 -- HP48 CPU emulator) which, by the way, most probably won't compile because I need X and I still didn't install development files. But this is not my issue.
My problems with auto* tools still remain: if I launch

sh /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi 

or similar invocation I get this error

aclocal: running echo 'm4_define([m4_require_silent_probe], [-])' | autom4te --l
anguage Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4  - /usr/share/aclocal-1.16/internal/ac-confi
g-macro-dirs.m4 @C:/var/temp/PW47KLolVM configure.ac
Can't open perl script "exe": No such file or directory
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 2

which gives me nothing since I still can't figure out what "exe" script perl is searching for. Also, for the life of me I can't understand why the script tries to write in C:\var\temp since I set every temporary variable to D:\temp, where I develop.

attaching a log from the execution of aclocal. Most probably will be useless, since it's got no warnings at all.

Mentore

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Hobbes (Files) Reoganization

« on: June 04, 2024, 08:08:59 am »

Hello Again

Just to let you know that I keep uploading OS/2 little things on HobbesArchive.

I'm on the up going phase of looking some old OS/2 Shareware CDs/Sites/File archives and see which OS/2 files are we missing on Hobbes and upload them there. Usually now are little things, some old software, little REXX scripts and even sometimes newer versions of old software that are already on Hobbes.

I'm also trying to consolidate non-english OS/2 software on Hobbes by putting _de or _jp on the name of the files( if the software is exclusively available in a non English languange)

If someone see something that we are missing on HobbesArchive.com just post it here, or let me know.

Regards

Good to hear, Martin.
I'm sure I have something old related to long lost archives, like Fernwood (already removed a lot of useless or duplicate entries), plus some OS/2 ports I'm working on during my little spare time. Going to upload on Hobbesarchive asap.

Mentore

53

Programming / Re: Qt6 Development

« on: May 30, 2024, 03:18:44 pm »

A few more exceptq reports  with the latest exceptq...

All from pages with javascript, all slightly different....

Seem all are related to unallocated or uncommitted memory. Wonder why...

Mentore

54

Programming / Re: Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: May 22, 2024, 11:16:10 am »

Hi/2.

How about trying `-c' option like:

Code: [Select]

sh -c /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi

or

Code: [Select]

sh -c "/usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi"

Auto tools scripts are not shell scripts but perl scripts in many cases.

KO Myung-Hun

Thanks for this help KO. I'll check everything asap. What puzzles me is that this behavior just started occurring on every project, suddendly, while days ago autoreconf and the other perl scripts worked correctly.

Will update asap.

Mentore

Quoting myself:

after creating a config.site file and slightly modifying my CMD settings file the result is the same - error on gawk while running config.status.

Also, if I issue autoreconf, the result is this


[D:\Sviluppo\sorgenti\tmp\cscope-15.9>]sh -c /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi
Can't open perl script "exe": No such file or directory


which points me really nowhere. Have to check something, or maybe the best solution is to reinstall everything.

Mentore

Bit of update: correcting SED=sed in configuration made configure work again.
It seems I need to work a little more to make autoreconf / autoconf work correctly.

Mentore

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Programming / Re: Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: May 22, 2024, 09:02:15 am »

Hi/2.

How about trying `-c' option like:

Code: [Select]

sh -c /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi

or

Code: [Select]

sh -c "/usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi"

Auto tools scripts are not shell scripts but perl scripts in many cases.

KO Myung-Hun

Thanks for this help KO. I'll check everything asap. What puzzles me is that this behavior just started occurring on every project, suddendly, while days ago autoreconf and the other perl scripts worked correctly.

Will update asap.

Mentore

Quoting myself:

after creating a config.site file and slightly modifying my CMD settings file the result is the same - error on gawk while running config.status.

Also, if I issue autoreconf, the result is this


[D:\Sviluppo\sorgenti\tmp\cscope-15.9>]sh -c /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi
Can't open perl script "exe": No such file or directory


which points me really nowhere. Have to check something, or maybe the best solution is to reinstall everything.

Mentore

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Programming / Re: Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: May 22, 2024, 08:22:17 am »

Hi/2.

How about trying `-c' option like:

Code: [Select]

sh -c /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi

or

Code: [Select]

sh -c "/usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi"

Auto tools scripts are not shell scripts but perl scripts in many cases.

KO Myung-Hun

Thanks for this help KO. I'll check everything asap. What puzzles me is that this behavior just started occurring on every project, suddendly, while days ago autoreconf and the other perl scripts worked correctly.

Will update asap.

Mentore

57

Programming / Re: Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: May 21, 2024, 11:11:13 am »

Replying to myself - I almost forgot what I'm using to set up my dev environment:


set LDFLAGS=-Zomf -Zhigh-mem -Zmap -Zbin-files -Zargs-wild -Zargs-resp
set CFLAGS=-O2 -g
set CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g
set LIBS=-lcx
set CC=gcc
set CXX=g++
set CPP=cpp
set CXXCPP=cpp
set LD=emxomfld
REM set AR=ar
set SED=sed
set GREP=grep
set AWK=awk
set exeext=.exe
set SH=sh.exe
set SHELL=sh.exe
set CONFIG_SHELL=sh.exe
set POSIX_SHELL=sh.exe
set MAKESHELL=sh.exe
REM set EMXSHELL=sh.exe
set PREFERABLY_POSIX_SHELL=\usr\bin\mksh
set PATH=%UNIXROOT%/usr/libexec/bin;%PATH%
mode co80,72

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Programming / Strange autoconf / autoreconf / configure behavior

« on: May 21, 2024, 10:04:28 am »

Hi all, this is something I never saw before.

I was recently trying to port some other SDL / un*x software on OS/2, mostly emulators. Gone through an HP 48 emulator which works under SDL, but has no configure script - just configure.ac ready to be used with autoconf. But this is what I have after running it:


[D:\Sviluppo\Sorgenti\tmp\x48-master>]sh /usr/bin/autoreconf -sfvi
autoreconf.: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf.: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf.: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
Can't open perl script "exe": No such file or directory
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 2
autoreconf.: failed to run aclocal: SYS0193=0xc1: %1 non può essere eseguito in
una sessione OS/2

[D:\Sviluppo\Sorgenti\tmp\x48-master>]sh /usr/bin/autoconf
Can't open perl script "exe": No such file or directory

[D:\Sviluppo\Sorgenti\tmp\x48-master>]


I took a look at the auto* scripts and tried changing /@unixroot/usr occurrences to /usr, but no results. Of course it was a stupid attempt but the results didn't change.

Trying to port the latest version of SOX I get this at the end of the configure script:


configure.: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] -f progfile [--] file ...
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] [--] 'program' file ...
POSIX options:          GNU long options: (standard)
        -f progfile             --file=progfile
        -F fs                   --field-separator=fs
        -v var=val              --assign=var=val
Short options:          GNU long options: (extensions)
        -b                      --characters-as-bytes
        -c                      --traditional
        -C                      --copyright
        -d[file]                --dump-variables[=file]
        -e 'program-text'       --source='program-text'
        -E file                 --exec=file
        -g                      --gen-pot
        -h                      --help
        -L [fatal]              --lint[=fatal]
        -n                      --non-decimal-data
        -N                      --use-lc-numeric
        -O                      --optimize
        -p[file]                --profile[=file]
        -P                      --posix
        -r                      --re-interval
        -S                      --sandbox
        -t                      --lint-old
        -V                      --version

To report bugs, see node `Bugs' in `gawk.info', which is
section `Reporting Problems and Bugs' in the printed version.

gawk is a pattern scanning and processing language.
By default it reads standard input and writes standard output.

Examples:
        gawk '{ sum += $1 }; END { print sum }' file
        gawk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd
sed: couldn't write 34 items to stdout: Invalid argument
config.status: error: could not create Makefile


Another project - FUSE 1.6 for SDL. I'd really love to get one of the best ZX Spectrum emulators under OS/2, but I get the same result.
I already ported some other programs simply tweaking their makefile, so I am rather sure GCC and its companions work well. I can't for the life of me figure what happened, since I didn't tamper with /usr/bin (I seem to remember substituting clean.exe with another exe, but can't remember when).

Is there anyone who can hint me on what to do? Upgrading the auto* tools would be a good idea, can I find them on ANPM?

Thanks in advance,
Mentore

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General Discussion / Re: Chuck McKinnis Passed Away

« on: May 21, 2024, 08:01:08 am »

My bad, Roderick. Indeed I confused Scott with Chuck.
Nonetheless, Chuck was really the kind person I remember from usenet and forums.

Mentore

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General Discussion / Re: Chuck McKinnis Passed Away

« on: May 20, 2024, 08:27:07 am »

Sorry to hear this Martin - Chuck was a big booster of OS/2. Thanks for letting us know.

Regards,

I remember him being always polite, helpful and willingful, even in the last days when the kernel development was actually shut down.
He just went and fixed things. Always present at comp.os.os2.*.

A huge loss for the community.

Mentore