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#61 Update Regina REXX for OpenSUSE from 3.9.1 to Current 3.9.6

Mark Hessling — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:06:53 -0000

I haven't had time to investigate how to get Regina into all Linux distributions. It may be a process that I don't have to be involved with. Perhaps you could do some investigation into how it is done.

Update Regina REXX for OpenSUSE from 3.9.1 to Current 3.9.6

Bill Comegys — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:35:00 -0000

I wrote a parallel download shim for zypper in Regina REXX, called zkk.opensuse. If you install Regina REXX from OpenSUSE it installs 3.9.1.
Can we update the Regina REXX package to 3.9.6, in OpenSUSE?
Thanks

#59 .crdownload question

Mark Hessling — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:25:52 -0000

Hi Bob,

First, click the link in the top left of the email response. It will take you to the SourceForge ticket. You might be prompted to login. Then below will be a box where you can reply and then hit "Post"

2nd. Edge is giving you a warning saying that it thinks Regina396w64.exe is dangerous. Try clicking the ... beside the garbage bin. It should give you the option to save the file.

Cheers, Mark

CRDOWNLOAD (V2)

Bob Glover — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 05:55:14 -0000

Hi Mark,
Sorry to open another ticket needlessly buy I cannot figure out how to respond to you in my 1st ticket. Maybe you can help me there too.
Anyway, I downloaded REGINA REXX again and its stays in my download file as a "crdownload". I waited 20 minutes for something good to happen, but nothing. How long should I wait? PS. I use Windows 11 and it's on the latest maint. Bob

#59 .crdownload question

Mark Hessling — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 04:49:00 -0000

Hi Bob. That looks to me like an incomplete download of the file you were downloading. Most browsers download to a temporary filename and then once the complete file has downloaded, it is renamed. Try the download again and see if you get the full file.

.crdownload question

Bob Glover — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 04:39:38 -0000

I downloaded Regina Rexx and the member I downloaded is called "Unconfirmed811365.crdownload". I don't use Chrome (I use MS Edge), so I don't know what to do to proceed with the install. I looked up .crdownload on the Internet but all I see is Chrome involvement. What are the steps necessary to complete the install? THANK YOUI!

Regina REXX for OpenSuse Tumbleweed and Leap supported versions

Bill Comegys — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:28:20 -0000

Hi,
I posted in the opensuse forum asking how to get Regina REXX updated from 3.9.1 to 3.9.6. I do not know where to do or how to get this done.
I have written the parallel patch downloader in Regina REXX for opensuse, I got some segmentation faults with Regina REXX 3.9.1.
Can you influence this? Where do I ask to get an updated rpm package?

Here is the link to my post:
https://forums.opensuse.org/t/update-regina-rexx-from-3-9-1-to-3-9-6/175715
Update Regina REXX from 3.9.1 to -> 3.9.6
Hi, would it be possible to update the Regina REXX rpm in the Suse repos from 3.9.1 to 3.9.6. I do not know how to or where to make this request.
I can do a zypper search Regina REXX and zypper install Regina REXX and it installs but I get the 3.9.1 version from April of 2015. It would be great to update it, to the 2024 version.
Thanks

Thanks
Bill

#55 Regina REXX not starting in windows 10 from installed package

Mark Hessling — Fri, 03 May 2024 02:06:22 -0000

status: open --> closed
assigned_to: Mark Hessling

Some things on autotools m4 files

Agustin Martin Domingo — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:36:16 -0000

Hi, Mark. Seems that sf does not allow two way discussions in feature request tickets. This is not a bug itself but some discussion on the build system, so I think it belongs here, but we can continue in a proper bug ticket or in a mailing list.

FYI I already had the "alpha" patch. I have attached a patch file for common/inclibarch.m4 (and indirectly configure) which has extra 64bit platforms which had caused me issues on OpenSUSE Build Service.
These patches however do raise a maintenance issue. Would it be better to use an autoconf test for sizeof(long) to determine if the platform is 32 or 64 bit?

I am not an expert in this kind of things (nor even in C), but I would only use hardcoded arches for evident things or for things that have no better approach. I have seen people proposing to use AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([size_t]) for this test assuming that the definition of "64 bit" machine is that void * are size 8, but depending on your specific needs you may prefer a different check.

While we are at this I would like to comment some things on a test that appears frequently in regina-rexx configure.in and configure and in some m4 macros.

if test "$ac_cv_prog_CC" = "gcc" -o "$ac_cv_prog_CC" = "g++" ...; then ...

It has been pointed out in https://bugs.debian.org/1027405 that this test will not work as expected when cross compiling (CC will be things like i686-linux-gnu-gcc). I guess this will also happen when a versioned gcc is used (gcc-10 and friends instead of plain gcc). Do not take too seriously 2001_configures_cross-compilation.diff patch there, is just a hack for a particular occurrence.

AC_PROG_CC seems to set GCC=yes when gcc is used
AC_PROG_CXX seems to set GXX=yes when g++ is used

so, it may better to check for that instead of checking for plain gcc or g++ name, even if you do not use above autotools macros (By the way, GCC=yes seems to be handled by configure, do not know where it comes from). Even a name based test at top may help (or testing plain *gcc*) and *g++*))

case "$ac_cv_prog_CC" in
    gcc|*-gcc|gcc-*)
        GCC=yes
        ;;
     g++|*-g++|g++-*)
        GXX=yes
        ;;
esac

...
if test "$GCC" = "yes" -o "$GXX" = "yes" ...; then ...

Do not know what to do for clang, so did not include it above.

Another thing about autotools m4 macros is that there a lot of local macros coming from a time where official autotools macros were way more limited than they are now. I am aware that this is a very unpleasant work, but I wonder how many of those local macros currently have an official macro that could be used with no much work, resulting in code simplification.

Cross compilation is another issue, even with the above will work only for compatible arches (e.g, amd64->i386) because of msgcmp

Best regards,

--
Agustin

#50 rexx for apple silicon macs

Mark Hessling — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:53:42 -0000

status: open --> closed
assigned_to: Mark Hessling