CLX archive - 1998: Re: clx3.03 & RedHat 5.0

Re: clx3.03 & RedHat 5.0

Franta Bendl (iwwke@kerailya.tunkki.fi)
Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:25:48 +0100

Martin Muermans wrote:
>
> >>It is working, but clx3.03 isn't that stable it should be.
> >>
> >What's going wrong ?
> >Have you tested it against clx 3.02 ?
>
> The clx system itself is running, accept the problems, which are discussed here on the list.
>
> >>As ax25 interface for clx I use the WAMPES socket from TNT1.1a3 with ax25
> >>kernel support.
> >>TNT, ax25-utils etc. are fresh compiled on the system.
>
> I use this configuration, because it was the easiest way for me to do.
> It is intended to switch clx to the native ax25 kernel interface support, using "ax25d" and "ax25call".
>
> >>The following things have to be recognized to be successfull with clx.
> >>
> >>You have to install both libc-5.3.12-25.i386.rpm found at
> >>ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/updates/i386
> >>and libc5-5.4.38-3.i386.rpm found at
> >>ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/hurricane/i386.
>
> You have to use libc5-5.4.38 for running clx.
> Libc-5.3.12 is used by RedHat distributed software, like the Netscape Navigator.
> At this time clx will not run with glibc, isn't it Ben, Franta?
>
> >Did you do this to get rid of the problems concerning ax25 utils and glibc
> >incompatibility ?
> >
> >what about glibc then - is everything still working on that side ?
> >
> >what versions of kernel, ax25utils, ax25-module14xxx are you using ?
>
> I patched the ax25-utils and TNT, DPBOX to compile and run with glibc.
> It is only necessary to exchange some include files.
> So I do not have problems with ax25-utils and glibc. It is working fine
> There is only one problem with the soundmodem support, because there is an include file needed to compile
> the kernel modules, but this include file conflicts when compiling ax25-utils.
> But I have no soundmodem. Otherwise a #ifdef __KERNEL__ will help.
> The way I did the installation process is:
> 1. I patch the RedHat kernel sources version 2.0.32 with the ax25-modules-14f patch.
> There will be one reject file. Be aware of this and check that everythig is patched right.
> The rejected patch will do some things on the soundmodem configuration file. But it looks to me,
> that everything was already included by RedHat.
> 2. I patched the kernel to 2.0.33.
> 3. I configured the kernel, compiled and installed it.
> 4. I tried to compile the ax25-utils and patched every file, which run's to errors.
> Same I did with TNT and DPBOX. It is necessary to patch one include file in the kernel environment.
> (Soundmodem support). Sorry, but I am not on my Linux system, so I can't lookup the name at this time.
> 5. I installed and configured the ax25 interface, TNT, DPBOX and clx to my needs.
>
> >I'm just curious because we are going to switch our node to Redhat v5.0 (from
> >Slackware)
> >and there are a lot of issues concerning RedHat and glibc and the ax25
> >utils.....
>
> I am running this configuration on 2 machines and will upgrade a 3. next week.
> Till now I do not find any problems.
>
> >If I'm able I would like to create a RPM for ax25 ...
>
> That will be great!
>
> 73 de Martin (DL1RF)
>
> e-Mail: jzqxf.plsfqaxvij@mail.dy.fi
> ax25: dl1rf@db0lan.#bay.deu.eu

hi martin,

sri, but i am not able to support glibc now. i hope to change in the
near future.

73 de franta (dj0zy)