Re: x3270

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

bob@spoiler.demon.co.uk (richard) writes:

> 	a while ago someone mention x3270 for connection to IBM mainframes.
> Well, I finally found it (x3270-3.1.1.6) but I just cannot get the thing to compile.

[snip]

> popups.c: In function `popup_an_errno':
> popups.c:503: conflicting types for `sys_errlist'
> /usr/include/stdio.h:221: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
> make: *** [popups.o] Error 1

Dirk fixed this in the Debian version 3.1.1.7-1 of x3270.  If you
really don't want to use the precompiled Debian package, at least
apply the latest (3.1.1.7-7) Debian patch.  (Which should compile
x3270 properly on libc5 too.)

You might not have found x3270 because, unfortunately, it's in
non-free.  Have a look at the license from GTRC and decide whether
"public use" is what you're doing with it.

If "IBM mainframe" actually means an AS/400, which IBM call
"midrange", I've included some patches in the latest Debian x3270
which make it work better than the distributed version.

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