From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tom@dbservice.com (Tomas Carnecky) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:31:12 +0200 Subject: [sup-talk] sup on opensolaris Message-ID: Kids, don't try this at home, it kills kittens! Well, not directly, but trying to get sup running will drive you so mad you will try to kill everything that moves. In other words: it doesn't work and the fact that I'm trying this on opensolaris doesn't make it any easier. The biggest issue is that the ruby binary from the package manager is linked against the ancient solaris curses.so but ruby-ncurses needs ncurses.so (which, to make the issue even more complicated, is in /usr/ gnu/lib). When both libraries are liked into one application, they don't play along well (=segfaults). I had to compile ruby from source and make sure it's not liked with curses.so, and also patch ruby- ncurses slightly. I then managed to get sup to start up and read my mails. However, there is one issue left that I'm not able to fix: Ncurses.field.field_buffer() is returning garbage, and that makes is impossible to write mails, search and set tags etc. The problem is somewhere inside sup, as the ruby-ncurses example form2.rb is working just fine (maybe it has something to do with encoding/locale?). I have an ugly patch for lib/sup/textfield.rb that uses its own string buffer instead of relying on field_buffer(). It's not perfect, but it at least allows me to write emails and assign tags. Other issues: - strftime("%P") is a GNU extension, I work around this by using strftime("%p").downcase. - Iconv.iconv(target + "//IGNORE", charset, text + " ") <- the "// IGNORE" is causing an InvalidEncoding exception, removing it didn't seem to cause any regressions tom