From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) Subject: Re: Xvt port (anybody done it?) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 18:38:37 GMT
In article <1993Feb13.022823.1287@gdr.bath.ac.uk> abpvb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (V Bourdakis) writes:
>Hi,
>
>
>I got the Xvt but I am just learning C at the moment and I dont thing I
>could modify the Makefile myself (it is a SUN something makefile and it
>didnt compile as it was; said undefined malloc_t and some other things..).
>Has anybody done it already and if so could he send me the Makefile?
I started doing this little port a couple of weeks ago, but didn't have
time to finish it properly.
Its not difficult to get running (mostly compiled out of the box, I think)
but there were a few fine points that needed to be fixed...
1) handling of utmp entries, to use the POSIX calls, getutmpent/pututmpent
instead of writing it directly. This I fixed.
2) some sort of strange interaction between select(2) and job control inside
of an xvt. back-grounding or fore-grounding the xvt process causes a select
call to fail. This is what I working on fixing when I ran out of time.
3) a totally strange problem that I couldn't figure out at all. When you
start kermit inside of an xvt it terminates immediately. It doesn't
dump core, just quits. Very odd. Does anybody have any ideas on this one?
So, the answer is that a certain level of functionality of xvt comes easily;
getting it right takes a bit of work. If I find the time to work on it
this week, I'll put it on sunsite and post an announcement.
(Of course I would be interested to here if someone else had this working
properly)
jem.