fp 5.0 application on Centos 7

[Scott Walker]

Mark,

Thanks for the pointers.  

Regards,
Scott


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Subject: Re: fp 5.0 application on Centos 7

(Did I mention that you need to modify the package to actually build against
i686, because the requisite flags were not included, even in %ifdef form?
It won't build properly out of the box.)

m->

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 07:54:07PM -0500, Fairlight via Filepro-list thus
spoke:
> 5.0.x needs libtermcap, but the one from ncurses won't work for you, 
> as it's...it's complicated.
> 
> You need compat-libtermcap, but the stock binary package is built 
> -only- for x86_64 binaries.  Since filePro binaries are 32-bit for 
> 5.0.x Linux, you need to take the SRPM and build it against the i686 
> target to get what you -actually- need for it to work properly.
> 
> I can't speak for the linux termcap except to say that the systems on 
> which I'm using it already had a valid termcap in place, so I didn't 
> have to mess with it this time around.
> 
> mark->
> 
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 07:36:21PM -0500, Scott Walker via Filepro-list
thus spoke:
> > Been running a fp 5.0 application on Centos 6 for many years.
> > 
> > Just trying in on Centos 7
> > 
> >   fp seems to run OK EXCEPT is seems like fp 5.0 is not seeing that 
> > TERM=linux (as set in the users .bash_profile).  What should be 
> > solid lines are drawn as "----" and the prompt says to press "DMAP" 
> > instead of "F6" to do a browse lookup.
> > 
> > To test the box we put 5.8 on it and it works as expected regarding 
> > the terminal line drawing and special key labels.
> > 
> > BTW, we did have an issue with lib.termcap.so.2 not being able to be 
> > installed with yum install but we thought we had that squared away.  
> > Does
> > 5.8 not need that and 5.0 does?  Maybe that is the cause of the problem.
> > 
> > Has anyone else used 5.0 on a Centos 7 box and have any ideas.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Scott
> > 
> > Scott Walker
> > scottwalker1956 at gmail.com
> > 
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