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["Brennan Cleveland" <warriorspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have followed the below procedure using CVS through CheckItOut.  I
am able to get the source, configure, and build the network portion.
I have followed the manual install procedure twice, and both times it
kills my system (cannot launch any program at all, with error "Symbol
not found").  I determined that what is causing it is copying the two
library files to /boot/home/config/lib.  If I delete them again,
everything works again.  This happens without having to restart any
servers or the system as a whole.  Just copying them into that
directory does it.  If one does reboot, the system freezes on the
splash screen after all boot icons have been highlighted (so just
before the desktop would have come up.)

Am I doing something wrong?

Brennan


---- Original Message ----
From: philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx
To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [openbeosnetteam] Re: Where do I start?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 15:37:50 GMT

>Hi Brennan,
>
>Sorry if I can't find time to reply your first email quicker.
>
>> I am a new list member.  I want to help with finding and fixing
>bugs.
>> Where should I start?  What code do I need?  How do I test it?
>
>Hum, alas, we don't have yet an enough working stack, but 
>it should not forbid you to test it.
>You'll have to get the code, build it, install it and run it, there
>is 
>no 
>package ready to install available yet...
>
>So, if you accept your mission :
>
>a) First, go to team web page:
>http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/tms/team.php?id=7
>
>
>b) Get the build tools suite:
>http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/dev.php
>Give a look at stack design, to get familiar with their components:
>http://philippe.houdoin.free.fr/phil/beos/openbeos/network_kit/
>
>You'll need CVS, JAM, the fixed LD linker
>
>c) Then, you should checkout (anonymously) the full OBOS CVS. If you 
>don't want to fight with 'cvs' command line syntax, I recommand you 
>using CheckItOut tool:
>http://www.bebits.com/app/3407
>
>Enter these values:
>Projet Name: open-beos
>Location: /path/to/where/you/want/to/store/OBOS/cvs/tree/locally
>Module Name: current
>Only check "Open Tracker once Completed" option, if you want.
>There, click "Go". 
>Patience, it take time (and bandwidth!)
>
>Other solution: download and unzip the current CVS snapshot tarball 
>from:
>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/open-beos-cvsroot.tar.gz
>Expect around 13Mb :-(
>
>d) Open a Terminal, cd to your all new local CVS current directory. 
>Then:
>$ ./configure
>$ jam NetworkingKit
>
>It should build all networking kit stuffs. 
>Report here any compile or link errors you may encounter
>
>e) Installation
>
>[I should add installation procedure soon to documentation, BTW!]
>
>Installation script or jam rule is a task uncompleted. Unassigned,
>too.
>So, currently, you have to install by hands. It sucks, I know.
>
>The network stuff binaries are now under your local current/distro/
>x86.R1/*
>
>To install:
>- open your current/distro/x86.R1/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/
>bin
>- copy the net_stack_driver and net_server_driver into your
>/boot/home/
>config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin
>- create in your /boot/home/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/net two
>
>symlinks "net_stack_driver" and "net_server_driver", targetting 
>  the ones in ../../bin/net_{stack|server]_driver
>  (create this 'dev/net' directory if needed)
>- copy the whole current/distro/x86.R1/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/
>network folder to your /boot/home/config/add-ons/kernel
>- copy the libnet.so and libnetapi.so libraries from current/distro/
>x86.R1/beos/system/lib into your /boot/home/config/lib
>- copy the command line net apps from current/distro/x86.R1/beos/bin 
>into your /boot/home/config/bin (or another folder of your choice)
>
>f) Test the stack
>
>You should free one of your /dev/net/*/0 network card (by disable in 
>BONEyard, or by disabling in Network for net_server)
>Then, run the ifconfig tool from Terminal to see (and start) the
>stack 
>detected interface(s)
>Last, play with ping, arp, traceroute, etc...
>
>I know, that should be far easier than that, and in fact if you can 
>come with a install script and a documentation on how to test the 
>current stack, 
>it'll help greatly this team !!!
>
>Feel free to post any question there...
>
>-Philippe
>
>
>
>--
>Fortune Cookie Says:
>
>Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best
>he
>is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
>make messes in the house.
>               -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"