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  <h1>Linux Configuration Support for ACE</h1>
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  <a href="mailto:levine@cs.wustl.edu">levine@cs.wustl.edu</a><br>
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<h2>&nbsp;</h2>

RedHat 5.1 is distributed with glibc-2.0.7-13 and egcs-1.0.2-8.
ACE and TAO work just fine with it.<p>

With RedHat 5.0 distributions of Linux, it's best to upgrade the
distribution with these:
<ul>
  <li>glibc-2.0.7-7 or later, or<br>
      glibc-2.0.6
      (at <a href="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.6.tar.gz">ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.6.tar.gz</a>)
      plus <a href="#Old Patches">Torbjörn's patch, below</a>
  <li>egcs 1.0.2 (from ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/)
</ul>

Thanks to James CE Johnson &lt;jjohnson@lads.com&gt;, Torbjörn
Lindgren &lt;tl@funcom.com&gt;, Oleg Krivosheev
&lt;kriol@fnal.gov&gt;, and Chanaka Liyanaarachchi
&lt;chanakal@ittc.ukans.edu&gt; for this information.  With the above
configurations, ACE compiles and runs cleanly on Intel platforms.  It
compiles and runs cleanly on Alpha platforms with the patches listed
below.<p>

<strong><blink><font color="#ff0000">WARNING:</font></blink></strong>
There is a bug in <code>getsockname ()</code> on versions of Linux
through 2.0.34.  <code>getsockname ()</code> returns an Internet host
address of 127.0.0.1 (localhost) instead of 0.0.0.0 for sockets that
aren't connected.  This bug prevents TAO servers from working
correctly.  To fix it, comment out these two lines in function
<code>inet_getname ()</code> in
<code>/usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/af_inet.c</code>:

<pre>
	} else {
		__u32 addr = sk-&gt;rcv_saddr;
		if (!addr) {
			addr = sk-&gt;saddr;
/* comment out this line:  if (!addr) */
/* comment out this line:  	addr = ip_my_addr(); */
		}
		sin-&gt;sin_port = sk-&gt;dummy_th.source;
		sin-&gt;sin_addr.s_addr = addr;
	}
</pre>

and rebuild your kernel.  This fix has been implemented in 2.1.x
versions of the kernel.<p>

Without the following patch from Scott Snyder &lt;sss@d0linux01.fnal.gov&gt;,
egcs 1.0.1 on Linux won't be able to compile
netsvcs/lib/Server_Logging_Handler.cpp:

<pre>
1997-12-10  scott snyder  &lt;sss@d0linux01.fnal.gov&gt;

	* method.c (make_thunk): Avoid name buffer overflow.


Index: gcc/cp/method.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /d0sgi0/usr0/snyder/CVSROOT/egcs/gcc/cp/method.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.5
diff -c -r1.1.1.5 method.c
*** method.c    1997/12/08 21:06:03     1.1.1.5
--- method.c    1997/12/11 05:40:37
***************
*** 1811,1817 ****
       tree function;
       int delta;
  {
!   char buffer[250];
    tree thunk_id;
    tree thunk;
    char *func_name;
--- 1811,1817 ----
       tree function;
       int delta;
  {
!   char *buffer;
    tree thunk_id;
    tree thunk;
    char *func_name;
***************
*** 1822,1827 ****
--- 1822,1828 ----
    if (TREE_CODE (func_decl) != FUNCTION_DECL)
      abort ();
    func_name = IDENTIFIER_POINTER (DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME (func_decl));
+   buffer = (char *)alloca (strlen (func_name) + 32);
    if (delta&lt;=0)
      sprintf (buffer, "__thunk_%d_%s", -delta, func_name);
    else
</pre>

With RedHat 5.0 on Alpha CPUs, two system patches and one
glibc-2.0.6/linuxthreads patch are necessary in addition to the above.
The first patch is for the GNU assembler, gas.  It is only necessary
on Alphas, and only when <code>-g</code> is used.  If you don't want
to patch the assembler, you can enable the SUPPRESS_DASH_G option in
the <code>platform_linux.GNu</code>.  Otherwise, this patch can be
applied to the binutils gas source.  Then, rebuild and install as.
The file to be patched is binutils-2.8.1/gas/config/tc-alpha.h:<p>

NOTE:  this patch isn't necessary with binutils-2.9.1.<p>

<pre>
--- tc-alpha.h.orig	Mon May 26 12:32:38 1997
+++ tc-alpha.h	Sat Feb 28 06:45:41 1998
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@

 #define TARGET_ARCH			bfd_arch_alpha

+#define PAGE_SIZE 8192
+
 #define TARGET_FORMAT (OUTPUT_FLAVOR == bfd_target_ecoff_flavour	\
 		       ? "ecoff-littlealpha"				\
 		       : OUTPUT_FLAVOR == bfd_target_elf_flavour	\
</pre><p>

In addition, you'll need to patch
<code>/usr/src/linux/include/linux/posix_types.h</code> as follows
to avoid compilation errors:<p>

<pre>
--- posix_types.h.ORIGINAL	Wed Nov 12 12:01:56 1997
+++ posix_types.h	Fri Feb 27 14:13:16 1998
@@ -41,9 +41,14 @@
 #undef __FDMASK
 #define	__FDMASK(d)	(1UL &lt;&lt; ((d) % __NFDBITS))

+#if defined (__KERNEL__)
 typedef struct fd_set {
 	unsigned long fds_bits [__FDSET_LONGS];
 } __kernel_fd_set;
+#else  /* ! __KERNEL__ */
+#include &lt;gnu/types.h&gt;
+typedef __fd_set __kernel_fd_set;
+#endif /* ! __KERNEL__ */

 /* Type of a signal handler.  */
 typedef void (*__kernel_sighandler_t)(int);
</pre><p>

Finally, on Alpha only, I removed wrapsyscall from the LinuxThreads
library by patching linuxthreads/Makefile:

<pre>
36c36
&lt;                      semaphore wrapsyscall
---
&gt;                      semaphore # wrapsyscall
</pre>

With that and the above configuration/pathes, all ACE tests run
perfectly cleanly on Alpha!<p>

<hr>
<h3><a name="Old Patches">Old Patches</a></h3>

If you use glibc-2.0.6, you'll need to apply Torbjörn Lindgren's
&lt;tl@funcom.com&gt; patch to glibc-2.0.6's LinuxThreads:<p>

<pre>
--- signals.c.old	Wed Jan 14 01:09:02 1998
+++ signals.c	Wed Jan 14 01:11:37 1998
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
   pthread_mutex_lock(&sigwaited_mut);
   /* Make sure no other thread is waiting on our signals */
 test_again:
-  for (s = 0; s &lt; NSIG; s++) {
+  for (s = 1; s &lt; NSIG; s++) {
     if (sigismember(set, s) && sigismember(&sigwaited, s)) {
       pthread_cond_wait(&sigwaited_changed, &sigwaited_mut);
       goto test_again;
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
   /* Install our signal handler on all signals in set,
      and unblock them in mask.
      Also mark those signals as being sigwaited on */
-  for (s = 1; s &lt;= NSIG; s++) {
+  for (s = 1; s &lt; NSIG; s++) {
     if (sigismember(set, s) && s != PTHREAD_SIG_CANCEL) {
       sigdelset(&mask, s);
       action.sa_handler = __pthread_sighandler;
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
   self-&gt;p_cancel_jmp = NULL;
   /* The signals are now reblocked. Restore the sighandlers. */
   pthread_mutex_lock(&sigwaited_mut);
-  for (s = 1; s &lt;= NSIG; s++) {
+  for (s = 1; s &lt; NSIG; s++) {
     if (sigismember(set, s) && s != PTHREAD_SIG_CANCEL) {
       sigaction(s, &(saved_signals[s]), NULL);
       sigdelset(&sigwaited, s);
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