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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: OS2World - running a little slow for anyone else?
« Last post by Dave Yeo on February 21, 2026, 04:08:25 pm »Here it varies. Yesterday the site just timed out. Today it is working well so far.
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I'm sorry from now if going to write something useless for such scope; is that much away from sharing folders by samba between Linux and OS2 ? That's beacuse it is normally possible that way between OS2 guest Virtualbox and Linux host. Of course not talking about Virtualbox Shared folder featureI want to put in different >xTB JFS backup drives full with OS/2 stuff into my Linux box and copy some/all files over. Copying millions of files >1TB is no fun over Samba. Mind our samba isn't the fastest and not the most stable too.
sudo chmod 0774 /media/device-nameWill test this next time.
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ --version
i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ (GCC) 9.2.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
/home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-pc-os2-emx/9/cc1: error while loading shared libraries: libmpfr.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
export CC=i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc
./configure --host=i686-pc-os2-emx --build=x86_64-linux-gnu LDFLAGS=-Zomf
Edit3: g++ also worked fine. dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ --version
i686-pc-os2-emx-g++: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
And I don't seem to have iconv installed,dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ sudo apt install iconv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package iconv is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'iconv' has no installation candidate
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ export PATH=~/opt/os2emx/bin:$PATH
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc --version
bash: /home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin/i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ i686-pc-os2-emx-g++ --version
bash: /home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin/i686-pc-os2-emx-g++: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~$ echo $PATH
/home/dave/opt/os2emx/bin:/home/dave/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
ls -la does show the files with the x bit set.dave@dave-ThinkCentre-M910s:~/opt/os2emx/bin$ file i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc
i686-pc-os2-emx-gcc: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
and looking at the file, it does look like the exe tarred with ustar by komh.