dosemu-1.1.4.6 for testing.

dosemu-1.1.4.6 for testing.

[Bart Oldeman]

Hi,

patchset-1.1.4.6.tgz is up at http://www.dosemu.org/testing.

If you would like to help DOSEMU development then please give it a try;
all (most?) of the configuration oddities of 1.1.4 are resolved now, the
mouse problem with certain X window managers has been resolved and a
suid-root (or, preferably, ran via "sudo") dosemu.bin now drops privileges
just before booting, so that DPMI is no longer inherently insecure in
that case.

The recently discussed comcom fixes from Clarence Dang, and Stas Sergeev's
fault handling, "sound in DOOM", and PIC fixes are also in now.

The plan is to have 1.1.4.6 as the last prerelease before 1.1.5 and then
to stabilize 1.1.5 to get the next stable release, 1.2.0. The following
still needs to be done however (before 1.2.0)
- large file support in MFS (necessary for certain kinds of locking)
- check the reliability of the time in DOS (correct timezone? what if
  $_rdtsc = (on) and DOSEMU is run for a long time)

Bart

Re: dosemu-1.1.4.6 for testing.

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Bart Oldeman wrote:

> patchset-1.1.4.6.tgz is up at http://www.dosemu.org/testing.

Impressive. The mouse now really works in all window managers
including icewm, great. Sound works without an extra patch (but no
music -- this midid stuff is still beyond me).

I had a little difficulty in compiling. I had to install a slang
development package (Debian package slang1-dev). Previous versions
were happy with just a slang runtime library. Maybe a note should
be included about this. After installing slang1-dev, 1.1.4.6
compiled with just "make", without any changes.

Regards, Jan

Re: dosemu-1.1.4.6 for testing.

[Bart Oldeman]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

> I had a little difficulty in compiling. I had to install a slang
> development package (Debian package slang1-dev). Previous versions
> were happy with just a slang runtime library. Maybe a note should
> be included about this. After installing slang1-dev, 1.1.4.6
> compiled with just "make", without any changes.

I should probably have mentioned that in the email but anyway, I guess
your configure script failed and you looked at the Changelog :)
Maybe the best thing would be to make get the configure script to tell you
to install a slang devel package if you don't have it (and the same is
true for X includes and devel libraries BTW).

Previous versions would use a supplied binary Slang library by default,
but it, being statically linked against libc5, might cause some problems
in the future. Besides I don't like the idea of supplying binaries with
source code.

Bart

Re: dosemu-1.1.4.6 for testing - compile problem

[Michal Samek]

On Ne, 2003-01-19 at 04:38, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> patchset-1.1.4.6.tgz is up at http://www.dosemu.org/testing.
> 

Hi, 
I have some problems compiling 1.1.4.6. I had to copy some .h files from
my /usr/src/linux/include/ to the dosemu compile tree but then I get an
error about missing 'include/dosemu_select.h' which I can't find. 
I've tried both original Makefile / configure --> Makefile.

Where the file is? Can I use safely this one from f.e. 1.1.3.7 release
where I can see it?

Also is it possible to try to say when the large file locking support
(as you've mentioned to be prepared to the 1.2 release) will be
implemented? 

Thanks
-- 
Michal Samek <webmaster@tony.cz>

Re: dosemu-1.1.4.6 for testing - compile problem

[Bart Oldeman]

On 21 Jan 2003, Michal Samek wrote:

> I have some problems compiling 1.1.4.6. I had to copy some .h files from
> my /usr/src/linux/include/ to the dosemu compile tree but then I get an
> error about missing 'include/dosemu_select.h' which I can't find.
> I've tried both original Makefile / configure --> Makefile.

it seems something is very wrong here. dosemu_select.h is no longer used
anywhere; moreover you should not need to copy any files from
/usr/src/linux/include/
if you cd to the dosemu-1.1.4.6 tree and do a
grep -r dosemu_select *
you should only see:
ChangeLog:        (src/include/dosemu_select.h)
and nothing else.

Could you reinstall the source and see again?

> Also is it possible to try to say when the large file locking support
> (as you've mentioned to be prepared to the 1.2 release) will be
> implemented?

Sometime during 1.1.5.x (February or March or so).

Bart

Re: dosemu-1.1.4.6 for testing - compile problem

[Michal Samek]

> Could you reinstall the source and see again?
> 

I was patching the tree which was already compiled before. It was my
mistake I thought that make clean is enough; make distclean (as you've
posted) did the work. 

> > Also is it possible to try to say when the large file locking support
> > (as you've mentioned to be prepared to the 1.2 release) will be
> > implemented?
> 
> Sometime during 1.1.5.x (February or March or so).

Thanks. I'm very excited that it could solve my long-lasting locking
issues.

> 
> Bart

-- 
Michal Samek <webmaster@tony.cz>