Re: Problems with Swarm on LinuxPPC

[Darren Schreiber]

>>>>>> "DS" == Darren Schreiber <address@hidden> writes:
>
>DS> I checked a number of other *.o files using the nm command and got
>DS> the same.  I have put Voting1.00.3 in the incoming directory.
>
>I don't get that using Swarm 2.1.1 and gcc-2.95.2 on LinuxPPC 1999 Q3.
>Perhaps the older compiler has problems with carriage returns.  You
>could try stripping them out with a command like:
>
>$ for i in *.[hm] ; do tr -d '\r' < $i > $i.new ; mv $i.new $i ; done
>
>You have some nil method problems.  These patches are not fixes, but
>will point you at the offending code, i.e. from which you can backtrack to
>find some fix that avoids the problem entirely.
>

I tried stripping the carriage returns as you suggested.  This did not lead
to a different result in the compile however.

So, I am going to try and install the new version of gcc and Swarm-2.1.1.

What is the clean way to uninstall the old packages?

I was using the rpm filename -e command.  I had some errors because some
directories were not empty.  What do I do in those cases?

Also, what directory do I need to be in when I install gcc, cpp, binutils
and the other dependent packages?

Similarly, what is the clean way to uninstall Swarm-2.0.1?  What directory
do I need to be in when I install 2.1.1?

Installing and uninstalling files in Linux is by far the most stressful
part of the operating system, so verbose guidance is especially appreciated
by this Linux novice.

BTW -- some of the nil methods are semi-intentional... I wanted to send a
signal to preclude some actions from being taken when an agent didn't want
them to happen... in those cases, the agent replies with "nil" instead of
with the id of a closestNeighbor.  I am open to more elegant solutions.
Thanks for the help on the code, it is helping significantly.

        Darren

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                 Darren Schreiber
                  Attorney at Law
                 Graduate Student
             Political Science, UCLA
                address@hidden
        http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~dschreib

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