20030324: 20030321: 20030321: 20030314: GEMPAK and FreeBSD

Neil,

Yes, I meant stdlib.h. I don't think its fatal prior to gcc3.x
but in gcc3.2 it starts being fatal.

I was just trying to figure out if freeBSD sites will want a separate
binary if available, or would use a Linux binary. I'll go ahead and make
a freeBSD binary....and then see how many sites download it.

Steve


>From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200303241751.h2OHpSB2013170

>Steve,
>Not being a programmer, I don't know if this is significant, but there's
>no stdlin.h on my freebsd or RedHat 7.3 or RedHat 8.0 systems. Do you
>mean stdlib.h? I looked at the freebsd /usr/include/malloc.h and here is
>the simple content:
>
>
>#if __GNUC__
>#warning "this file includes <malloc.h> which is deprecated, use
><stdlib.h> instead"
>#endif
>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>
>
>And the gempak make output includes one of these following most if not
>all gcc compile lines:
>/usr/include/malloc.h:2: warning: #warning "this file includes
><malloc.h> which is deprecated, use <stdlib.h> instead"
>
>So looks like includes of malloc.h are not a fatal thing since it
>includes what they want you to use anyway. I suppose you already know
>this, but "gee look what i found"'s are always fun. And it doesn't speak
>to stdlin.h.
>
>I just looked on the ftp site and didn't see anything that might be your
>tar file.
>
>Freebsd is supposed to run a bunch of linux binaries but I'm too new to
>it to help. Are you thinking that a gempak linux binary installation
>might run on freebsd? Would you like me to try it?
>
>-Neil
>
>On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 19:06, Unidata Support wrote:
>> 
>> Neil,
>> 
>> The problem I had to fix with freeBSD is that the gcc would not accept mallo
> c.h,
>> and instead, had to have these removed in favor of stdlin.h. I assumed it wa
> s a "new"
>> feature of gcc,  but seems like you found that it goes back at least as far 
> as
>> 2.95.
>> 
>> In the old days, all I had to do was tar up may distribution tree for the ft
> p site,
>> but with the web portal now, I have to modify dozens of data base entries (p
> rogress).
>> I'll make the tarfile and you can download it from the ftp site...until I ge
> t time
>> to make the portal entires.
>> 
>> I thought BSD was able to run Linux binaries in some compatibility mode. Is 
> this true?
>> Or, do I need to make a new distribution category for freeBSD binaries?!
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>> >Keywords: 200303212216.h2LMGbB2022232
>> 
>> >gcc -v gives 'gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]' on our FreeBSD
>> >4.7-RELEASE install. Will this likely require the changes you're making
>> >for gcc 3.2, or should it work?
>> >
>> >You might say - "try it and see". Well I did, with the '-i' make option
>> >and have gotten a lot of errors and the warnings (use stdlib.h instead
>> >of malloc.h). A make clean, then make all without '-i' stops in the
>> >nxmlib where ranlib can't find $NAWIPS/lib/freebsd/Nxmlib.a.
>> >
>> >Any hope? Or should I just wait for 'J'?  
>> >
>> >Speaking of which, what's the time frame on it now? Are you still being
>> >called off to meetings? Tell'em I said you're excused from any further
>> >meetings!
>> >
>> >Thanks, -Neil
>> >
>> >On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:44, Unidata Support wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Neil,
>> >> 
>> >> Thats basically it for the environment, but I had to make a bunch of
>> >> code changes for this release related with gcc 3.2 which our version of
>> >> freebsd used.
>> >> 
>> >> Steve Chiswell
>> >> 
>> >> >From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>> >> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>> >> >Keywords: 200303212059.h2LKxIB2012698
>> >> 
>> >> >Hi Steve,
>> >> >Since I haven't seen announcement of release J, I thought I'd have a go
>> >> >at building on freebsd. So the things I saw needing modifying were
>> >> >Gemenviron needing a 'freebsd' NA_OS switch, and then a
>> >> >config/Makeinc.freebsd. The Makeinc.linux file looked 'bout right so I
>> >> >thought I'd copy it to Makeinc.freebsd. Is this what you did?
>> >> >
>> >> >Then just 'make -i all'?
>> >> >
>> >> >Thanks, -Neil
>> >
>> >-- 
>> >Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr.             address@hidden
>> >Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ.     979/845-6272 FAX:979/862-4466
>> >
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