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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Php/apache Zaurus (pdaxrom) Weird Issue

« on: December 12, 2006, 09:24:52 am »

I am currently experimenting with Apache. I am using 1.1.0beta1 on a C3100. I am
hitting problems both with native compilation and cross compilation.

The cross compilation ends as follows:

checking whether setpgrp takes no argument... configure: error: cannot check setpgrp when cross compiling
configure failed for srclib/apr

This problem has been posted earlier by someone else but no reply was
given. Does someone have a working version or can someone tell me
how to get around the issue? Preferrably, I'd like to be able to compile
Apache myself so I can experiment with it.

-- MarcusKracht

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 03, 2006, 02:39:12 pm »

This seems to work! I tried latex and xdvi and they worked. I have the tgz, if
things go wrong I can retry. You may dismount them at your end. If you do not
mind, I shall make the files available on my server together with installation
instructions (see http://kracht.humnet.ucla.edu/marcus/zaurus/zaurus-3100.html
for the progress so far).

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 03, 2006, 01:03:48 pm »

I have made and tar zip from the whole dir. You should place it to /usr/local and untar it. I saw no soft links to other places and my ld.so.conf does not show any entries for this package.

You can download it from http://doshome.edvings.de/tetex_C31k.tgz
It will be there for a week or two since webspace is limited but needed.

Hopefully I haven't any private tex things in this tree   

-- Oliver
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Vielen Dank!

I have meanwhile found ed (stupid me, I didn't see it), but meanwhile had another
complaint from gsftopk.c. I reckon that this is going to take forever. It does not
seem trivial at all. Some changes must have been made that upset the compiler.

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 03, 2006, 12:08:29 pm »

HELP please!

I made some progress with compiling. But I am still not through.

(1) There is a type conflict indeed between types defined in texk/kpathsea/c-std.h
where "realloc" and others are declared as ALLOC_RETURN_TYPE, which as far as I
could make out is declared to be "void". This however created a type mismatch, so
I changed their type to "void" thus bypassing ALLOC_RETURN_TYPE. This worked.
Keep fingers crossed.

(2) Twice it complained that it could no open sedscript. I made an empty file with that
name and that worked.

(3) It is missing the command "ed". There is a file is /bin/ed on my main PC, but is
missing on the Zaurus. Can someone please provide this file or tell me where to
find it? (I am using beta 1 for C3100).

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 02, 2006, 12:13:10 pm »

Hi Marcus,

on my C3100 I have compiled tetex-3.0 nearly 6 month ago. So I can't remember the dependencies which were needed. But I have compiled it to an extra directory /usr/local/teTeX with bin-dir and texmf-dir. Maybe it's competely there.

For me it works perfectly. I'm using vi, pdflatex and xpdf. I just started xdvi to check if it works too and it started up and is quite fast. It's faster as xpdf and has no screen problems while scrolling like xpdf. Maybe I switch over to work with xdvi in the future   .

Tell me if your interested in my teTeX directory. It's 260MB because I haven't stripped any of the texmf directory. I could tgz it and make it downloadable for you anywhere.

On the other hand with your working compiler you shoul be able to compile tetex-3.0 yourself after checking out all the options from the configure script.

  Greetings,
  Oliver
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Yes please. Indeed: xdvi is much faster than xpdf! I'd like to have the whole tree, 260MB
is not a problem. It is too bad you do not remember what you did, because I tried to com-
pile but got an error. I tried to change settings but no result so far. Maybe I have to learn
more about compiling ...

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Weird Keyboard Problem

« on: February 01, 2006, 04:08:34 pm »

I have the same problem without tampering with the keymap. Can someone be
so kind to tell me what to do now? As far as I can see it is a matter of changing
the content of /etc/sysconfig/keyboard/kernel.map and rebooting. What should
be in this file to get a good result?

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 01, 2006, 03:54:17 pm »

I have recently acquired a Zaurus C3100 and installed the new rom (beta 1).
My old latex installation I cannot get to work now. On the other hand, given
the space that I have on the harddisk, it would be no problem to compile it
onto the zaurus using the sources. I tried that and it gave me errors (there
was a problem with type compatibility). Since compiling otherwise works (I
was successful with OCaML), I am somewhat helpless to understand what
exactly is the problem (I am not a software developer). Can someone help
me? I can provide the full log if you need.  

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Rc11 For Pxa Devices

« on: October 05, 2005, 05:10:56 pm »

I haven't had much feedback yet. Basically, I can flash neither to RC10 nor to
RC11. After the first three steps (select option 4, then CF and then hit "Y"
to accept, the screen goes blank. The only recovery is to unplug and restart
pdaXrom. I am using RC9 which otherwise works fine.  The only problem is
I haven't been able to use the "make" utilities without any serious errors. I
might stay with it if it wasn't for the fact that I cannot not compile new software.
Now, is there a limit on how many times one can flash or what else could cause
such a behaviour? Any experiences?

-- Marcus

pdaXrom 1.1.0 RC9 on
Zaurus C860

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Rc11 For Pxa Devices

« on: October 03, 2005, 11:44:19 am »

I am trying to flash RC11 from RC9. However, the screen goes blank after I confimed
that I want to reflash.

Well, the problem isn't skipping RC10, since I also flashed directly from RC9 to RC11 and I had no problems. Are you sure the downloaded file was OK?
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Well, I unzipped twice and the files were the same (I checked) and tried different cards,
even the SD. No difference.

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Rc11 For Pxa Devices

« on: September 28, 2005, 01:02:01 pm »

I am trying to flash RC11 from RC9. However, the screen goes blank after I confimed
that I want to reflash. (So, I enter <4.>, then <2. CF> and then choose <Y>, and after
that the screen is blank and I never went beyond that.) I tried different CF cards, but
the problem is always the same.

Any suggestions?

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: May 25, 2005, 08:00:49 pm »

Error: /undefinedresult in --div--

Hi again Marcus,
I just upgraded to rc10 and encountered the same problem as you... I think the solution is to populate /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/ with whatever your desktop machine has on it.  According to the gs.README file, you might have to "update Fontmap if necessary".  (I didn't have to.)

Of course, you may have already figured this out.    

jg
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Dear Jandr,

in fact, I have not. So I'd like to be updated about the development. So far, I use xdvi and xpdf,
both of which do excellent service. I am not sure how it works if I update to rc10. Is it worth it?
I remember rc9 having issues with cross compiling and that kpathsea had to be trimmed a little.
I vaguely remember that there was a plan that updates should not be a matter of reflashing
(is loosing the data and the installation that I have made to work). So any hints are welcome.

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Root Filesystem Corruption After Reboot

« on: April 07, 2005, 04:26:43 pm »

I noticed something similar. Xpdf does not work, so I used the trick that someone
pointed out: link the freetype-libraries to freetype.so.6.3.4 instead of freetype.so.6.3.7.
This works, but every now and then Xpdf crashes and I find that the libraries have
been relinked to freetype.so.6.3.7. Occasionally the system would also not find an
executable file after I have edited the path in /etc/system. Seems that this is a similar
type of problem.

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 15, 2005, 03:32:47 pm »

Hi Jandr,

here is an update. I use dvipdfm, as provided in the earlier package which I got from
somewhere (and mirrored on my site). Maybe the stuff in the gs package will work
as well. But the devipdfm, after being wrapped, now seems to work. I do not know
what caused the hickup. I noticed though that initially the rc9 would often forget the
paths and I had to issue a friendly reminder that it should include /usr/bin/latex in its
search path. Also, occasionally kpsewhich would not give any meaningful results. I
was puzzled. But now, apparently, things work. Except for ghostview ... And the
error was only on the website (now corrected), not in my files. So, I am afraid, I still
don't know what the problem is. I keep searching.

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 10, 2005, 01:14:58 pm »

Okay, Zazz and Jandr, I am back in the business. After Installing RC9 and doing the
dirty work, I have managed to also use the ztex and xdvi. See my report on
http://kracht.humnet.ucla.edu/marcus/zaurus/zaurusrc9.html

I am stuck with ghostview. I get a screen for a second then it stop and, among mnay other
stuff, it gives the following error:

(...)
Error: /undefinedresult in --div--
Operand stack:
          Fa 136 --nostringval-- w 46000.0 -0.0
(...)

It seems to be doing fine for a while and then a hickup. I have had this problem for
a while and cannot get it to disappear.

dvipdfm claims to need fonts.map but I cannot see anywhere in my configs that
I told it to look for these fonts. kpsewhich does not find anything ... But latex works,
xdvi, dvips work perfectly.

Any suggestions?  

-- Marcus

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Libraries Missing

« on: February 08, 2005, 07:09:55 pm »

Usually an ipkg search <filename> will do it.
You can then (re)install that particular package.

However, libm.so.6 is part of the glibc, so maybe it's not wise to uninstall. So you better download the ipk manually,
http://mirror1.pdaxrom.org/current/feed/gl....5_armv5tel.ipk
and unpack it with
$ tar xvzf glibc_2.2.5_armv5tel.ipk
then unpack the data.tar.gz too and search for the needed files.

Zumi
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Thanks for the info. Actually, the problem was that I had many packages on the SD
card before reflashing. The new installer does not reveal where the package is
(that should be repaired), so I accidentally threw that away. It is not easy for me
to see which packages are supplied originally, so I do not have to update them.

-- Marcus