minix/dist/nvi/build.unix/README.LynxOS

README.LynxOS
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Written by Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@monkeys.com>

Last modified Wed Aug 14 23:10:07 PDT 1996
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0. Introduction
---------------

This file describes how to build and install the Berkeley nvi editor for
the LynxOS 2.4.0 operating system.

LynxOS 2.4.0 is available for a variety of different hardware platforms, in
particular, x86, m680x0, Sparc, and PowerPC.  I have successfully built nvi
on all four of these flavors of LynxOS by following the procedures given in
this file.

Note that these procedures may not work on versions of LynxOS prior to 2.4.0.
(As I understand it, a good deal of work went into making the 2.4.0 release
more POSIX-compliant, and I have no idea what build glitches, if any, you
might encounter if you try to build nvi on a pre-2.4.0 version of LynxOS.)

There are basically four steps to configuring, building, and installing nvi
on LynxOS, namely:

	1.  Get setup to use the proper C compiler.
	2.  Replace your installed `tr' program.
	3.  Fix your system include files.
	4.  Do a normal configure, build, and install of nvi.

These steps are described in separate sections below.

1.  Get Setup to Use the Proper C Compiler
------------------------------------------

The first step when building nvi on LynxOS is to set your $PATH environment
variable properly so that the gcc 2.x compiler appears first on your path,
prior to the older (and less robust) gcc 1.xx compiler (typically installed
as /bin/gcc) and/or the old Lynx proprietary C compiler (typically installed
as /bin/cc), both of which may also be present on your system.

Note that for most operating systems, the configure script for nvi tries
to use whatever compiler you have installed (and in your $PATH) as "cc",
however in the special case of LynxOS, the configure script will auto-
matically try to find a "gcc" program on your $PATH in preference to a
compiler called "cc".  If the nvi configure script only find a compiler
called "cc", that's OK.  It will still try to see if that is really just
the GNU C compiler installed under the name "cc".

Regardless of the name however (be it "gcc" or "cc") the first C compiler
in your $PATH should be some _recent_ (i.e. 2.0 or later) version of the
GNU C compiler... and the nvi configure script now checks that this is the
case, and fails if it isn't.

Oddly enough, LynxOS 2.4.0 (and some prior versions) shipped with as many
as three different C compilers installed, so it is important to set your
$PATH environment variable carfully in order to get the proper C compiler
to appear first in your $PATH.  You want to avoid having either the /bin/gcc
compiler or the /bin/cc compiler be the first C compiler in your $PATH.

To make sure that the GNU C version 2.x compiler which was shipped with your
LynxOS system appears first on your path, you will need to either set your
$PATH variable (for sh/bash/ksh users) or your $path variable (for csh/tcsh
users).  You can, of course, just do this at the shell command prompt, but
it is probably better to actually edit this change into your .profile file
(for sh/bash/ksh users) or into your .cshrc file (for csh/tcsh users).

The pathname of the directory that contains the GNU C version 2.x compiler
is (unfortunately) dependent upon the exact type of LynxOS system you have.

For LynxOS 2.4.0 on x86 systems, gcc 2.x is located in:

	/cygnus/94q4-lynxos-x86/bin

For LynxOS 2.4.0 on m680x0 systems, gcc 2.x is located in:

	/cygnus/94q4-lynxos-68k/bin

For LynxOS 2.4.0 on Sparc systems, gcc 2.x is located in:

	/cygnus/94q4-lynxos-usparc/bin

For LynxOS 2.4.0 on PowerPC systems, gcc 2.x is located in:

	/cygnus/95q2-lynxos-ppc/bin

(Note also that these locations may change in LynxOS 2.5.x and beyond.)

Anyway, it is imperative that you setup your $PATH environment variable
(*before* you do the configure step for nvi) so that the GNU C version 2.x
compiler appears in your $PATH before either the /bin/cc or /bin/gcc
compilers (if present).  If you fail to do this, the configure step for
nvi will fail, because the compiler script actually checks (now) that the
compiler you are using (if your are on a LynxOS system) is gcc 2.0 or
later.

To make absolutely sure that you will be configuring and building nvi with
the proper C compiler (i.e. the GNU C version 2.x compiler on your system)
you should add the directory name listed above for your specific system type
to your $PATH setting in your $HOME/.profile file.  (For csh/tcsh users, you
will instead want to add the relevant directory name to the setting of your
$path variable in your ~/.cshrc file.)  Once you have added the proper direc-
tory name (from the list given above) to your $HOME/.profile file (or to your
~/.cshrc file, if you are using csh or tcsh) you should log out completely
and then log back into the system just to make sure your new $PATH/$path
setting takes effect properly.

When you finish making this adjustment to your $PATH (or $path), the most
up-to-date version of gcc on your system should be available to you as the
first `gcc' program on your $PATH.  You should verify that this is indeed the
case simply by typing `gcc -v' and then checking the version number reported
by the compiler.  It should say either "2.6-94q4" or (on PowerPC systems) it
should say "2.6-95q2".  If you don't get these results, try again to set your
$PATH (or $path) until you do.  You won't be able to build nvi until you are
properly setup to use gcc version 2.0 or later.

Performing the steps shown above will insure that your subsequent configura-
tion and build steps for nvi will make use of the most up-to-date version of
gcc that was shipped with your Lynx operating system.  (Note that the versions
of gcc which are currently shipping with LynxOS 2.4.0 are also somewhat out-
of-date themselves, but they are still quite a bit newer and more bug-free
and ANSI conformant that those other two C compilers, /bin/cc and /bin/gcc,
which also ship with LynxOS 2.4.0.)

(Note:  At present, LynxOS version 2.4.0 is the latest officially released
version of LynxOS, and all of the above information is accurate and correct
for LynxOS 2.4.0 as of the time of this writing.  However it is rumored that
future releases of LynxOS may provide a still newer version of gcc, and that
it may be located in the /usr/bin directory.  Thus, if you are building nvi
for some LynxOS version later than 2.4.0, you may wish to check and see if
your system has a program called /usr/bin/gcc, and use that version of gcc,
if available, rather than the one suggested above.)

2.  Replace Your Installed `tr' Program
---------------------------------------

The `tr' program which comes bundled with LynxOS 2.4.0 (as /bin/tr) has a
somewhat obscure bug which just happens to be tickled by almost all GNU
`autoconf' generated `configure' scripts (including the one that nowadays
comes bundled with nvi).  Using the stock /bin/tr program on LynxOS when
executing such `configure' scripts _will_ cause these scripts to malfunction
in various ways.  It is therefore imperative that you replace your LynxOS
/bin/tr program with a properly working version of the `tr' command _before_
you even try to configure nvi.  (You can tell if your `tr' program has the
bug by executng the command "echo ab- | tr ab- ABC".  If this yields the
string "Ab-" then you have the bug.  If it yields "ABC" then you don't.)

You can obtain sources for a working version of the `tr' command as part of
the GNU `textutils' package (the latest version of which, at the time of this
writing, is 1.19).  The GNU textutils package is available for downloading
from prep.ai.mit.edu in the pub/gnu directory.  Look for the file named
textutils-1.19.tar.gz, or an even more recent version of textutils, if one
is available.  Fetch it, gunzip it, untar it, and follow the directions in
the INSTALL file included in the tar file to build and install the entire
textutils set of utility programs (which includes a working `tr' program).
Then just make sure that the GNU version of `tr' appears on your $PATH
_before_ the LynxOS version of `tr' (i.e. /bin/tr).  Be sure to do this
step _before_ you start to configure nvi.

When building the textutils set of programs, I suggest that you use the most
up-to-date C compiler available on your system (as described above).  Also,
note that it will be important for you to AVOID using the -O (optimize)
compiler option when building the GNU textutils package, even if you are
using the most up-to-date version of gcc which shipped with your system.
If you try to use -O when building the textutils package on an x86 with
the Cygnus 94q4 C compiler, you will end up with a `tr' program which will
malfunction even worse than the one you are trying to replace!  If you use
-O when building the textutils package on LynxOS on the PowerPC (using the
Cygnus 95q2 C compiler) you will just get yourself a compiler crash.  So
just don't use -O when building textutils.  You can avoid using -O by in-
voking make in the textutils directory as follows:

	make CFLAGS="-g"

(Note:  At present, LynxOS version 2.4.0 is the latest officially released
version of LynxOS, and all of the above information is accurate and correct
for LynxOS 2.4.0 as of the time of this writing.  However it is rumored that
the bug in the /bin/tr program will be fixed in future releases of LynxOS,
so if you have a version of LynxOS later than 2.4.0, you may wish to check
and see if your /bin/tr program even has the problematic bug before bothering
with all of this.)


3.  Fix Your System Include Files
---------------------------------

If you are building nvi on a PowerPC system, it is also important that you
apply the patches given at the end of this file to your /usr/include files.
(Note that you will have to be root in order to do this.)  Two of the patches
included below fix a pair of serious bugs in the /usr/include/stdarg.h file
on the PowerPC, and you really _do_ want to have these bugs fixed anyway,
because without these fixes, anything that you compile which uses <stdarg.h>
will very likely malfunction at run-time.

Regardless of which LynxOS platform you are using (i.e. x86, PowerPC, Sparc,
or m680x0) you may want to apply all of the system include files patches that
are included below anyway.  Doing so will clean up a few minor problems with
the relevant system include files (i.e. <stdarg.h>, <ioctl.h>, and <wait.h>)
and this step will also prevent a few warnings which you would otherwise get
during the build of nvi.

You can apply all of the patches given at the end of this file simply by
doing the following:

	su root
	cd /usr/include
	/bin/patch < this-file

Where `this-file' is the actual full pathname of the file you are now reading,
wherever it may reside on your own system.

(Note:  At present, LynxOS version 2.4.0 is the latest officially released
version of LynxOS, and all of the above information is accurate and correct
for LynxOS 2.4.0 as of the time of this writing.  However it is rumored that
future releases of LynxOS may incorporate some or all of the important system
include file fixes provided below.  Thus, if you are building nvi for some
LynxOS version later than 2.4.0, you should probably go ahead and try to
apply the patches given below to your system include files, and then just
don't worry about it if these patches seem to have already been applied.)


4.  A Brief Note about Sendmail
-------------------------------

I should mention also that LynxOS does not normally ship with the `sendmail'
mail transfer program installed, either under /usr/lib/ or anywhere else for
that matter.  This isn't really a big problem, but nvi normally wants and
expects to have a sendmail program available so that it can send users notifi-
cations (by mail) whenever a partially edited file is preserved by the editor
in response to a sudden system crash, a sudden system shutdown, or an unexpect-
ed serial-line hangup.  You can configure and build nvi without any sendmail
program installed on your system, but you will get warnings about its absence
when you are doing the initial configure step prior to actually building nvi.
If you want to have a fully-functional nvi which does send out notification
messages (by mail) whenever partially edited files are preserved during a
serial line hangup or system crash, then you should get the BSD sendmail
sources (via ftp from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu), build and install sendmail, and
then reconfigure, rebuild, and reinstall nvi.

Please contact me at the E-mail address below if you experience any problems in
building or using nvi on LynxOS.  I make no guarrantees, but I may be willing
to try to help.

Ron Guilmette
Roseville, California
<rfg@monkeys.com>
August 14, 1996


cut here for LynxOS 2.4.0 system include files patches
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*** wait.h	Fri Apr 26 10:02:45 1996
--- wait.h	Sun May 19 05:36:50 1996
***************
*** 94,104 ****
  /* Function prototypes */
  #ifndef __LYNXOS
- #ifdef _POSIX_SOURCE
  extern pid_t wait		_AP((int *));
  extern pid_t waitpid	_AP((pid_t, int *, int));
! #else
! extern int wait		_AP((union wait *));
! extern int waitpid	_AP((int, union wait *, int));
! extern int wait3	_AP((union wait *, int, struct rusage *));
  #endif
  #endif /* !__LYNXOS */
--- 94,101 ----
  /* Function prototypes */
  #ifndef __LYNXOS
  extern pid_t wait		_AP((int *));
  extern pid_t waitpid	_AP((pid_t, int *, int));
! #ifndef _POSIX_SOURCE
! extern int wait3	_AP((int *, int, struct rusage *));
  #endif
  #endif /* !__LYNXOS */
*** ioctl.h	Fri Apr 26 16:50:51 1996
--- ioctl.h	Sat May 18 17:55:16 1996
***************
*** 572,576 ****
  
  #ifndef __LYNXOS
! extern int ioctl	_AP((int, int, char *));
  #endif
  
--- 572,576 ----
  
  #ifndef __LYNXOS
! extern int ioctl	_AP((int, int, ...));
  #endif
  
*** stdarg.h	Fri Apr 26 16:51:02 1996
--- stdarg.h	Sat May 18 19:34:13 1996
***************
*** 88,92 ****
  	(((sizeof(TYPE) + sizeof(int) - 1) / sizeof(int)) * sizeof(int))
  
! #define va_start(AP, LASTARG)	(AP = ((char *) __builtin_next_arg ()))
  
  void va_end(va_list);		/* Defined in libgcc.a */
--- 88,92 ----
  	(((sizeof(TYPE) + sizeof(int) - 1) / sizeof(int)) * sizeof(int))
  
! #define va_start(AP, LASTARG)	(AP = ((char *) __builtin_next_arg (LASTARG)))
  
  void va_end(va_list);		/* Defined in libgcc.a */
***************
*** 162,166 ****
  	(((sizeof(TYPE) + sizeof(int) - 1) / sizeof(int)) * sizeof(int))
  
! #define va_start(AP, LASTARG)	(AP = ((char *) __builtin_next_arg ()))
  
  void va_end(va_list);		/* Defined in libgcc.a */
--- 162,166 ----
  	(((sizeof(TYPE) + sizeof(int) - 1) / sizeof(int)) * sizeof(int))
  
! #define va_start(AP, LASTARG)	(AP = ((char *) __builtin_next_arg (LASTARG)))
  
  void va_end(va_list);		/* Defined in libgcc.a */