FW: Question about installing xerces 1_3_0 on OS/390

["Crain, David B. (LNG)" <Da...@lexis-nexis.com>]

Try this again ......

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Crain, David B. (LNG) 
> Sent:	Friday, February 02, 2001 1:32 PM
> To:	'xerces-c-dev-faq'; 'xerces-c-dev-info'
> Cc:	Crain, David B. (LNG)
> Subject:	Question about installing xerces 1_3_0 on OS/390
> 
> 
> I am working on installing Xerces C++ libraries on OS/390. I have
> successfully gunzipped and un-tarred the download 
> file to OS/390's Unix System Services. I have also un-paxed the file in
> the ../Projects/OS390 directory. 
> 
> I have successfully run the "configure" script with a minor modification:
> 
> if test "$platform" != "OS390"; then
> DEFS=`sed -f conftest.defs confdefs.h | tr '\012' ' '`
> else
> # OS390 - EBCDIC NL is '\025'
> DEFS=`sed -f conftest.defs confdefs.h | tr '\025' ' '`
> fi      
> 
> This has created the appropriate Makefiles for compiling. In the
> "Makefile" at the "src" directory, it talks about setting the following 
> environment variables prior to issuing the "make":
> ###################################################################
> #                    IMPORTANT NOTE                               #
> ###################################################################
> # Before you try to run the Makefile, make sure you have two      #
> # environment variables set.                                      #
> #                                                                 #
> # export XERCESCROOT=<the directory where you installed XERCES-C> #
> #     export ICUROOT=<the directory where you installed ICU>      #
> #                                                                 #
> ###################################################################
> 
> I am confused as to whether or not I should set the ICUROOT variable or
> not, and if I do what should I set it to.
> When I uncompressed the .pax file in the ./Projects/OS390 directory I got
> the following files extracted:
> ./icu
> ./icu/source
> ./icu/source/confdefs.h
> ./icu/source/config.log
> ./icu/source/configure
> ./icu/source/oget.sh
> ./icu/source/common
> ./icu/source/common/putil.c
> ./icu/source/common/ucnv_io.c
> ./icu/source/common/ucnv_io.h
> ./icu/source/common/Makefile.in
> ./icu/source/config
> ./icu/source/config/mh-os390
> ./icu/source/i18n
> ./icu/source/i18n/Makefile.in
> ./icu/source/test
> ./icu/source/test/intltest
> ./icu/source/test/intltest/cppcnvt.cpp
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/obj
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/obj/Makefile.in
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/configure
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/Makefile.incl
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/DOMCount
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/DOMCount/Makefile.in
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/DOMPrint
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/DOMPrint/DOMPrint.cpp
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/DOMPrint/Makefile.in
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/MemParse
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/MemParse/Makefile.in
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/MemParse/MemParse.cpp
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/Redirect
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/Redirect/Makefile.in
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/SAXCount
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/SAXCount/Makefile.in
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/SAXPrint
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/samples/SAXPrint/Makefile.in
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src/confdefs.h
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src/config.log
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src/configure
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src/Makefile.incl
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src/com
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src/com/ibm
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src/com/ibm/xml
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src/com/ibm/xml/util
> ./xml4csrc2_3_1/src/com/ibm/xml/util/OS390PlatformUtils.cpp
> 
> There is no real documentation as to whether I need this or not for
> building Xerces 1_3_0 on OS390.
> 
> Could anyone lend a little guidance on this ???
> 
> David B. Crain
> Consultant Software Engineer
> Editorial & Conversion Systems
> Lexis Online Publishing - Editorial
> Phone: 937-865-6800 ext. 6303
> 
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