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Peter C. Chapin

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Oct 27, 2010, 3:10:13 PM10/27/10
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When I run the 1.9 Linux installer on my fresh Ubuntu 10.10 Linux box I
get the message

"floating point exception"

and nothing else happens. I believe this was discussed before here, but
I forget the resolution. Does anyone happen to remember? I guess I might
have to try a bootstrap build.

Peter

Rugxulo

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Oct 27, 2010, 8:14:26 PM10/27/10
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Hi,
I remember reading that too. A quick search shows this:

"Building OW1.9 on Linux" (Oct. 1)

http://groups.google.com/group/openwatcom.users.c_cpp/browse_thread/thread/f6b3b73708df59f3/7d670072e42d7b76?lnk=gst&q=exception#7d670072e42d7b76

"Turns out this is because OW can't find the Terminfo files"
"Linking /usr/share/terminfo/x to /lib/terminfo/x seems to fix it:
$ sudo ln -s /lib/terminfo/x /usr/share/terminfo
$ sudo ./open-watcom-c-linux-1.9

... and the installer works as expected. " -- Philip Pemberton

Peter C. Chapin

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Oct 28, 2010, 7:22:59 AM10/28/10
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On 2010-10-27 20:14, Rugxulo wrote:

> I remember reading that too. A quick search shows this:
>
> "Building OW1.9 on Linux" (Oct. 1)
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/openwatcom.users.c_cpp/browse_thread/thread/f6b3b73708df59f3/7d670072e42d7b76?lnk=gst&q=exception#7d670072e42d7b76
>
> "Turns out this is because OW can't find the Terminfo files"
> "Linking /usr/share/terminfo/x to /lib/terminfo/x seems to fix it:
> $ sudo ln -s /lib/terminfo/x /usr/share/terminfo
> $ sudo ./open-watcom-c-linux-1.9
>
> ... and the installer works as expected. " -- Philip Pemberton

Thanks! For whatever reason I had trouble finding that. I'll give it a
try later and update the Wiki if it works for me too. I suppose we
should fix the installer at some point.

Peter

Roald Ribe

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Oct 28, 2010, 5:16:56 PM10/28/10
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:22:59 -0300, Peter C. Chapin <cha...@acm.org>
wrote:

>> "Turns out this is because OW can't find the Terminfo files"
>> "Linking /usr/share/terminfo/x to /lib/terminfo/x seems to fix it:
>> $ sudo ln -s /lib/terminfo/x /usr/share/terminfo
>> $ sudo ./open-watcom-c-linux-1.9
>>
>> ... and the installer works as expected. " -- Philip Pemberton

Added fix to the wiki Linux install page.

Roald

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