Hi,
Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS?
Any pointers would be very welcome.
I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing list to try to resolve installation problems.
ChrisG
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS?
Any pointers would be very welcome.
I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing list to try to resolve installation problems.
*sigh* <pulls brown paper bag over head> ObAdmission: I wrote *way* too much COBOL a long time ago, in a galaxy far away....
It really is past time to migrate to another language, y'know. You could probably move it to something like perl fairly easily, or even *bleah* java.
mark
Yes, lets move millions of lines of tested business code to Perl... and what testing? we don't need to test it.
S
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:04, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS?
Any pointers would be very welcome.
I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing list to try to resolve installation problems.
*sigh*
<pulls brown paper bag over head> ObAdmission: I wrote *way* too much COBOL a long time ago, in a galaxy far away....
It really is past time to migrate to another language, y'know. You could probably move it to something like perl fairly easily, or even *bleah* java.
mark
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Please don't top post.
Singer X.J. Wang wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:04, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS?
Any pointers would be very welcome.
I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing
list
to try to resolve installation problems.
*sigh*
<pulls brown paper bag over head> ObAdmission: I wrote *way* too much COBOL a long time ago, in a galaxy far away....
It really is past time to migrate to another language, y'know. You could probably move it to something like perl fairly easily, or even *bleah* java.
Yes, lets move millions of lines of tested business code to Perl... and what testing? we don't need to test it.
Why on *earth* would you think I would suggest not testing? Rather, if it were up to me, I'd run them in parallel for a year (so as to include year-end closing).
Among the reasons I suggest it is to a) get rid of the tested spaghetti code (and yes, I've maintained crap like that, though not in a lot of years, thankfully); b) structure it using control structures that all modern language have (as opposed to, say, PERFORM 1500-DUMMY-PARAGRAPH THROUGH 1500-DUMMY-PARAGRAPH-EXIT VARYING I FROM 1 WHILE I < 200, which yes, I left a lot of behind me, faking for/next loops that way), and, finally, c) it's getting harder and harder to find anyone who knows COBOL, since it's not a required course, and hasn't been for a lot of years....
mark mark
Hi Chris,
In CentOS 6.2:
yum install gmp gmp-devel libtool ncurses ncurses-devel ncurses-libs
yum install libdbi libdbi-devel libtool-ltdl libtool-ltdl-devel db4 db4-devel
(I think I had all but db4-devel pre-installed, not sure now)
cd /opt
wget http://www.sim-basis.de/open-cobol-1.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf open-cobol-1.1.tar.gz
cd open-cobol-1.1
./configure
make
make check
make install
I have not tested past this; if you send me a small program I could try to run it.
regards,
Jesus
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:26 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Please don't top post.
Singer X.J. Wang wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:04, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS?
Any pointers would be very welcome.
I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing
list
to try to resolve installation problems.
*sigh*
<pulls brown paper bag over head> ObAdmission: I wrote *way* too much COBOL a long time ago, in a galaxy far away....
It really is past time to migrate to another language, y'know. You could probably move it to something like perl fairly easily, or even *bleah* java.
Yes, lets move millions of lines of tested business code to Perl... and what testing? we don't need to test it.
Why on *earth* would you think I would suggest not testing? Rather, if it were up to me, I'd run them in parallel for a year (so as to include year-end closing).
Among the reasons I suggest it is to a) get rid of the tested spaghetti code (and yes, I've maintained crap like that, though not in a lot of years, thankfully); b) structure it using control structures that all modern language have (as opposed to, say, PERFORM 1500-DUMMY-PARAGRAPH THROUGH 1500-DUMMY-PARAGRAPH-EXIT VARYING I FROM 1 WHILE I < 200, which yes, I left a lot of behind me, faking for/next loops that way), and, finally, c) it's getting harder and harder to find anyone who knows COBOL, since it's not a required course, and hasn't been for a lot of years....
mark mark
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 04/27/2012 06:09 PM, Jesus del Valle wrote:
Hi Chris,
In CentOS 6.2:
yum install gmp gmp-devel libtool ncurses ncurses-devel ncurses-libs
yum install libdbi libdbi-devel libtool-ltdl libtool-ltdl-devel db4 db4-devel
(I think I had all but db4-devel pre-installed, not sure now)
Hi Jesus,
Thanks very much, I removed all of the stuff that I had manually downloaded and followed your instructions and the "make check" completed all tests without errors.
ChrisG
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Geldenhuis Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 13:02 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Open Cobol
On 04/27/2012 06:09 PM, Jesus del Valle wrote:
Hi Chris,
In CentOS 6.2:
yum install gmp gmp-devel libtool ncurses ncurses-devel ncurses-libs
yum install libdbi libdbi-devel libtool-ltdl libtool-ltdl-devel db4 db4-devel
(I think I had all but db4-devel pre-installed, not sure now)
Hi Jesus,
Thanks very much, I removed all of the stuff that I had manually downloaded and followed your instructions and the "make check" completed all tests without errors.
Making rpm of it right now....
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Just in case, it also compiles in CentOS 5.8; ncurses-libs is missing in yum there though. Maybe it is not needed at all.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Geldenhuis Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 13:02 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Open Cobol
On 04/27/2012 06:09 PM, Jesus del Valle wrote:
Hi Chris,
In CentOS 6.2:
yum install gmp gmp-devel libtool ncurses ncurses-devel ncurses-libs
yum install libdbi libdbi-devel libtool-ltdl libtool-ltdl-devel db4 db4-devel
(I think I had all but db4-devel pre-installed, not sure now)
Hi Jesus,
Thanks very much, I removed all of the stuff that I had manually downloaded and followed your instructions and the "make check" completed all tests without errors.
Making rpm of it right now....
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-----Original Message----- From: Jesus del Valle Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 13:29 Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Open Cobol
Just in case, it also compiles in CentOS 5.8; ncurses-libs is missing in yum there though. Maybe it is not needed at all.
Please do not top post. Thanks for checking. Links to the rpms are below.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Geldenhuis Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 13:02 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT Open Cobol
On 04/27/2012 06:09 PM, Jesus del Valle wrote:
Hi Chris,
In CentOS 6.2:
yum install gmp gmp-devel libtool ncurses ncurses-devel ncurses-libs
yum install libdbi libdbi-devel libtool-ltdl
libtool-ltdl-devel db4
db4-devel
(I think I had all but db4-devel pre-installed, not sure now)
Hi Jesus,
Thanks very much, I removed all of the stuff that I had manually downloaded and followed your instructions and the "make check" completed all tests without errors.
Making rpm of it right now....
http://client.pdinc.us/open-cobol-1.1-1.src.rpm
http://client.pdinc.us/open-cobol-1.1-1.x86_64.rpm
http://client.pdinc.us/open-cobol-1.1-1.i386.rpm
-Jason
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on 4/27/2012 8:04 AM m.roth@5-cent.us spake the following:
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS?
Any pointers would be very welcome.
I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing list to try to resolve installation problems.
*sigh*
<pulls brown paper bag over head> ObAdmission: I wrote *way* too much COBOL a long time ago, in a galaxy far away....
It really is past time to migrate to another language, y'know. You could probably move it to something like perl fairly easily, or even *bleah* java.
mark
Just think how much money you could earn at Y3K!!! <<DUCKS>> ;)
On 04/30/12 19:40, Scott Silva wrote:
on 4/27/2012 8:04 AM m.roth@5-cent.us spake the following:
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS?
Any pointers would be very welcome.
I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing list to try to resolve installation problems.
*sigh*
<pulls brown paper bag over head> ObAdmission: I wrote *way* too much COBOL a long time ago, in a galaxy far away....
It really is past time to migrate to another language, y'know. You could probably move it to something like perl fairly easily, or even *bleah* java.
Just think how much money you could earn at Y3K!!!<<DUCKS>> ;)
http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/interfaith-dialogues/538-y2k-and-y10k.html
mark, not getting frozen
From: Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com
Just think how much money you could earn at Y3K!!! <<DUCKS>> ;)
I wonder what are the plans for Y2038... Most of us will have retired by then I guess.
JD
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 16:53 +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS? Any pointers would be very welcome.
I played with it once years ago; it seemed to work Ok. Sadly, COBOL is not COBOL and ISAM is not ISAM, so code portability isn't likely and the Open COBOL application possibly won't be able to access the files from an RM or Acu COBOL application [some things never change]. So you'd at least have to export / import any data between COBOL compilers.
At least COBOL had a relatively simple and reliable way to produce CRUD screens; which just about every other environment *still* lacks - at least the Open Source onces. Oh well.
--On Friday, April 27, 2012 12:54:33 PM -0400 Adam Tauno Williams awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
At least COBOL had a relatively simple and reliable way to produce CRUD screens; which just about every other environment *still* lacks - at least the Open Source onces. Oh well.
The Seam guys have put work into this area to make it a lot less painless to do basic CRUD.
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