[9fans] libndb.a

[9fans] libndb.a

[Tiit Lankots]

aux/vga, when compiled from current sources, always fails
with the message 
	"main: <monitor>@<mode> not found in /lib/vgadb"
for all values of <monitor> and <mode>. I traced the problem
to /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga.db.c:266 where the 
ndbsearch() fails.

ndb/query -f /lib/vgadb fails also.

But binaries from March 21st installation cd work flawless:
term% ndb/query -f /lib/vgadb xga 1024x768
term% /mnt/cd/386/bin/ndb/query -f /lib/vgadb xga 1024x768
xga=1024x768 include=1024x768
term%

And:
term% diff /lib/vgadb /mnt/cd/lib/vgadb
term% diff /mnt/cd/sys/src/libndb /sys/src/libndb
term%

But:
term% cp -x /mnt/cd/386/lib/lib/libndb.a /386/lib
term% cd /sys/src/cmd/ndb
term diff . /mnt/cd/sys/src/cmd/ndb
term% mk all
[snip]
term% 8.query -f /lib/vgadb xga 1024x768
term%

Tiit@clueless

Re: [9fans] libndb.a

[David Presotto]

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Argh!  I had to tighten up the ndb parsing to avoid ambiguities.  To wit

	a = b

worked before, but some people used it to mean

	attribute(a) has value (b)

and others

	atribute(a) has not value and attribute(b) has no value.  That
	was blowing away people that had domain area definitions like

	soa= dom= ns=xyzzy

I no longer allow spaces twixt the '=' and the value.  Unfortunately,
/lib/vgadb had lots of things like

include = 640x480@72Hz

I've put a new /lib/vgadb on sources.

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From: "Tiit Lankots" <t.lankots@aprote.ee>
To: "Plan 9 Mailing List (E-mail)" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] libndb.a
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:34:06 +0200
Message-ID: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE056173@black.aprote.com>

aux/vga, when compiled from current sources, always fails
with the message 
	"main: <monitor>@<mode> not found in /lib/vgadb"
for all values of <monitor> and <mode>. I traced the problem
to /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga.db.c:266 where the 
ndbsearch() fails.

ndb/query -f /lib/vgadb fails also.

But binaries from March 21st installation cd work flawless:
term% ndb/query -f /lib/vgadb xga 1024x768
term% /mnt/cd/386/bin/ndb/query -f /lib/vgadb xga 1024x768
xga=1024x768 include=1024x768
term%

And:
term% diff /lib/vgadb /mnt/cd/lib/vgadb
term% diff /mnt/cd/sys/src/libndb /sys/src/libndb
term%

But:
term% cp -x /mnt/cd/386/lib/lib/libndb.a /386/lib
term% cd /sys/src/cmd/ndb
term diff . /mnt/cd/sys/src/cmd/ndb
term% mk all
[snip]
term% 8.query -f /lib/vgadb xga 1024x768
term%

Tiit@clueless