Re: gdomap problem

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, February 10, 2001, at 12:55 PM, Dennis Leeuw wrote:

> Hi all, 
>  
> Two questions: 
>  
> 1) When gmp is installed gdomap uses it. But when gmp is installed in 
> the directory structure of GNUstep you need to add GNUstep.sh to the 
> bootup scripts for gdomap to be able to find the libs. So I suggest that 
> gmp will be installed within the normal Unix tree and not within the 
> GNUstep tree. Now the question, does anybody know a distro that already 
> has gmp installed and for which that might lead to dependancy problems? 

Nothing in GNUstep uses gmp ... there is some partially written gmp code in
NSDecimal, waiting for someone to complete it ... but it's not used yet.
Certainly gdomap has absolutely nothing to do with gmp ... a port nameserver
has no need of multiple precision arithmetic.

> 2) This is probably Linux specific, I added the gdomap lines to 
> /etc/services and gdomap is runnig, but when I do a telnet to localhost 
> gdomap I get: 
> gdomap: bad port number 
> Telnetting to port 538 gives me a connection. So I guess I am doing 
> something wrong (btw rebooting the machine doesn't help eighter). Where 
> do I have to look to solve this problem. 

This suggests that the changes were not made to /etc/services correctly ... you
normally get the error when the service name ('gdomap' in this case) doesn't
exist in /etc/services.