Forum OpenACS Development: Re: bug fixes from 4.6 merged to HEAD

21: Re: bug fixes from 4.6 merged to HEAD (response to 20)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 01/20/03 10:31 AM

One thing I would say is that if you are not completely familiar with openacs (to the point of being able to track down these sorts of things yourself) you should stick with the released version (currently 4.6, which can be downloaded as a tarball or checked out with tag oacs-4-6-final).

Also, my mentioning upgrading the db driver was not because there are any bugs which were fixed that might correct the problem, it was because there are some patches in it that have better error reporting.

The bug in Tammy's case is this:

Index: lang-message-procs.tcl
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-lang/tcl/lang-message-procs.tcl,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -r1.17 lang-message-procs.tcl
442c442
<             set package_where_clause "where package_key = $package_key"
---
>             set package_where_clause "where package_key = :package_key"

I committed the fix on HEAD, it did not affect the 4.6 branch since it is i18n related.

22: Re: bug fixes from 4.6 merged to HEAD (response to 21)

Posted by Andrei Popov on 01/20/03 03:27 PM

Jeff,

My feedback to this thread has not been a "please help it does not work" -- I simply find it interesting that what used to work a dozen times I've installed and configured is not working now. I am trying to see what causes these breakages and how they can be mitigated, whether it is a praticular combination of OS/db/AOLserver. Unlike many here, for instance, I prefer to use FreeBSD, not Linux, even though this calls for a bumpier ride -- yet there's no reason while it should not work, is there?

23: Re: bug fixes from 4.6 merged to HEAD (response to 22)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 01/20/03 03:44 PM

Andrei, I was not trying to single you out there. It's more that a lot of folks download the HEAD when 4.6 would be hugely better as a starting point which is why I said it.

To be honest, I don't know what your problem is since you have not described very concretely. I assume it's something different than what Tammy described but other than that I don't know.

On nssha1, the best place to post something would be the aolserver mailing list (and to submit a bug at aolserver.sourceforge.net).

24: Re: bug fixes from 4.6 merged to HEAD (response to 23)

Posted by Andrei Popov on 01/20/03 05:39 PM

Fair enough. FWIW, if anybody is having the "You need to update" error -- make sure that you compile nspostgres with ACS=1 as follows:

  $ gmake ACS=1 POSTGRES=/usr/local
...
  $ gmake ACS=1 POSTGRES=/usr/local install

(substitute for just make on Linux).

As far as nssha1 is concerned -- lines 139 and 140 of nssha1.c need to be commented out if you are compiling in FreeBSD (probably it should just be wrapped in to a sensible #ifdef/#endif:

--- nssha1-0.1/nssha1.c.org     Mon Jan 20 00:57:45 2003
+++ nssha1-0.1/nssha1.c Mon Jan 20 00:52:46 2003
@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@
     return NS_OK;
 }

-typedef unsigned int u_int32_t;
-typedef unsigned char u_int8_t;
+/*typedef unsigned int u_int32_t;
+typedef unsigned char u_int8_t;*/

 /*** FROM sha.h: ***/

After these changes all is good with the follwoing setup: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT/postgresql-devel (7.3.1) from ports/OpenACS 4.6-final

25: Re: bug fixes from 4.6 merged to HEAD (response to 24)

Posted by Andrei Popov on 01/20/03 05:42 PM

> After these changes all is good with the follwoing setup:
> FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT/postgresql-devel (7.3.1) from 
> ports/OpenACS 4.6-final

Should read:

After these changes all is good with the follwoing setup: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT/postgresql-devel (7.3.1) from ports/AOLserver 3.5.1/OpenACS 4.6-final

When compiling AOLserver, make sure that you compile Tcl of your choice with --enable-threads (I had to manually alter Makefile).