I tried to install PolyML again... Here is what I did.

Unpacked the driver archive: polyml-driver-4.1.3.tar.gz Then ran ./configure. It warned me about the operating system saying: "unknown operating system OpenBSD". And there are no XWindows support either (which is understanable because Xm is in different directories on my system, anyways). I continued and tried to compile it: make... There was a compilation error: discgc.c line 36 alloca.h (No such file or directory - NSFOD).

Then I copied the part where the OS is identified in the configure file for FREEBSD. The changes are like this:

OpenBSD) echo "OpenBSD operating system" ARCH=`uname -m` OS=freebsd OSFLAGS=-DFREEBSD LIBS="-lm" ;;

After that ran configure again, which removed the warning regarding the operating system.

Then tried to compile it again (first make clean, then make). There were again errors which I have changed like this...

1. mmap.c: 66 values.h (No such file or directory). I commented out the include. There is no values in my system. I tried to find it. Maybe I have to find the corresponding header file for this. In the mmap.c file there is a comment that says that FREEBSD warns about that particular file. Since there is a warning I commented it out.

There is a file /usr/include/limits.h that defines the constants defined in values.h on other systems. I will try to include this file and compile again... But since it compiles without this file, the constants must be defined somewhere...

Anyways here are the remaining steps that I have taken.

2. reals.c: 24 floatingpoint.h (NSFOD). I have changed this include to ieeefp.h, which is on my system. No floatingpoint.h present. floatingpoint.h on FreeBSD is for IEEE fp functionality.

3. realconv.c: warnings here. Ignored.

after these changes I compiled again (make clean and then make). Compiled fine. Installed the polyML using make install.

Then I continued and created a temp directory and unpacked the polyml-4.1.3.i386.tar.gz database to the directory created. It created a DB413Release and a link ML_dbase. In the same directory I ran poly and it gave me this message:

Can't process signal at 2071acee

and poly.core created (core dumped).

By the way, my system is (using uname -srv): OpenBSD 3.4 GENERIC #18

Riza

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:00:37 +0000 From: David Matthews

It's almost impossible to suggest anything here without a lot more information. I'm surprised, though, that you've modified addresses.h . Did you have a reason for this? I have had Poly/ML running on FreeBSD for many years and the database it uses is identical to that on Linux so I would have expected that it would also run on OpenBSD. Have you tried compiling the driver using the options for FreeBSD and seeing if that works?

David.

__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com