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From: sau (Stephen A Uhler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: MGR installation
Message-ID: <8901271859.AA29288@wind.bellcore.com>
Date: 27 Jan 89 20:45:29 GMT
Sender: lju@gamma.UUCP
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
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To: majka@moose.cs.ubc.ca
In-Reply-To: <484@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Cc:

In article <484@ubc-cs.UUCP> you write:
  >I picked up mgr from uunet and tried to install it over the last
  >couple of days.  There are problems.  <text deleted>
  >
  >There are, however, two other bugs which bit me (i.e. they cause
  >make to fail):
  >
  >1:  sys/kbd.c has this silly line (line 23):
  >    #   include "<sys/termios.h>"
  >    This should probably be:
  >    #include <sys/termios.h>
It is actually
#include <sys/ttycom.h>
Sun is good at moving TIOCCONS around.
  >
  >2:  There is supposed to be a file called doc/usrman.out
  >    It doesn't exist.  I made an empty one to get make over it,
  >    assuming that mgr would run without whatever this document
  >    is supposed to be.
usrman.out got lost somewhere, A patch to the Makefile makes usrman.out
if it isn't there.
  >
  >Make complains of many errors while installing mgr, even with
  >these fixes.  All of them are reported with something like:
  >    "*** Error code 1: (ignored)"
The Makefile is weird!  In general if make ignores an error, all is OK.
  >
  >Some of them do look ignorable, but there are mysterious things
  >which look more serious.  e.g.: "mv mgr _mgr" fails because the
  >file mgr doesn't exist.  "ln mgr mgr" also fails.
I told you the Makefile was weird.
  >
  >Thus, even though I got make to run all the way through, mgr was
  >probably in a bad state.  This seemed to be indicated further by
  >the fact that running mgr causes a segmentation fault.  It will
  >run with -v or -V and print version information, but otherwise it
  >dies without touching the screen. 
This only happens on SUNOS-4.0.  A fix is coming.  If you can't wait,
change line 69 in src/blit/bitmap.c (in the mmap call) replacing
PROT_WRITE with PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE
  >
  >Has anyone out there got fixes for mgr?  I would like to try it 
  >out (as, I am sure, do many others on the net).  An informed 
  >posting to the net would be reasonable at this point.  Email to
  >me would be appreciated, but perhaps less helpful to other lost
  >soles.  
I sent these (and other) fixes to $alz, so hopefully you should see them soon. 
  >
  >BTW, I tried putting mgr on a SUN 3, running SunOS 4.0.  I don't
  >believe this is an oddball system.
When I sent MGR to be posted, I didn't have 4.0 (I still use 3.5).