OpenEuphoria

Re: exu not working

• Posted by jbrown1050 at hotpop.com Feb 07, 2003
• 448 views

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:52:32PM -0000, tubby.toast at ntlworld.com wrote:
> 
> > Well, turns out, if it was a library error, you'd see a msg like
> > "ld.so.2: failed to load libncurses.so.6" or something, so that cant be
> it.
> >
> > Also, the other possibility i can think of, ncurses failing to initalize
> > the terminal, cant be it either, as it'd also error an error on
> stdout/stderr.
> >
> > Are you doing something to its stdin/stdout/stderr? Thats the only thing I
> could
> > think of ... unless ... hmm.
> 
> Nope.  Other programs write to stdout fine.  I deliberately made some syntax
> errors too and stderr works normally.

Huh? Can you get any euphoria program working under exu?

> 
> > How are you invoking it? Via a remote telnet/ssh shell I suppose? Not that
> that
> > would change anything, but still .... hmm.
> 
> Yes, ssh2.  Also all the cgi scripts fail in a web browser which is how I
> first noticed the problem

Hmm ... odd.

> 
> > No matter how cryptic, an error is nearly always shown on the terminal
> (or, to
> > be more precise, on stdout/stderr, often used interchangably for error
> messages).
> >
> > Only thing I can think of, either you're running something else called
> exu,
> > or your binary is corrupted ... or exu's output is being redirected and
> lost
> > somewhere.
> >
> I uploaded a copy from my computer (it definitely works on that) - still no
> joy.
> 
> > What happens if you type the full path to exu on the command line?
> 
> Same result.

Not a PATH thing then.

> 
> > And,
> > what does "du -b <full path to exu" show?
> >
> 90112   /home/chrissy/bin/exu

Looks like the full and correct binary.

> 
> It's strange, it's all been running perfectly for six months.  I know
> they've changed to Redhat 7.3 (but I run that with no problems) and have
> changed their versions of PHP, Perl and Apache but surely none of that's
> relevant, at least for just trying to run the interpreter over telnet.

"man system" and "man 2 exec" might get some better answers perhaps.

Thats how I found out what 127 meant.

> 
> Thanks for your thoughts,
> chris.

exu is a dynamic ELF i386 binary ... but I assume the Redhat 7.3 servers
have ELF support and are Intel machines, so that doesnt help much. :/

perplexed but still trying,
jbrown

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