3.1.6: HP-UX 10.20 binary chokes on 11.0

3.1.6: HP-UX 10.20 binary chokes on 11.0

[Clint Olsen]

I don't quite know how to explain it.  It's as if the cursor is jumping
wildly across the line.  I have to use "~." to logout of my session.  

Here are the details of the build system:

zsh configuration
-----------------
zsh version               : 3.1.6
host operating system     : hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
source code location      : .
compiler                  : cc -Ae -O
preprocessor flags        : 
executable compiler flags :  -O
module compiler flags     :  -O +z
executable linker flags   :   -s -Wl,-E
module linker flags       :   -s -b
library flags             : -lcurses -lc 
binary install path       : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
man page install path     : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
info install path         : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
functions install path    : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
installed functions       : Core/* Base/* Builtins/* User/* Commands/* Zle/* Zftp/*

About the HP-UX 11.0 system:

uname -a: HP-UX XXXXXXXX B.11.00 A 9000/899 689441351 two-user license
model: 9000/899/K570

Has anyone ever seen behavior like this before?  I'm not sure how much
success I'll have debugging.  For some reason the compiler flags for Zsh
HP-UX build are set to use a +s flag in certain places which causes angst
for the linker.  I'll have to track this down.

-Clint

Re: 3.1.6: HP-UX 10.20 binary chokes on 11.0

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 30), Clint Olsen said:
> I don't quite know how to explain it.  It's as if the cursor is jumping
> wildly across the line.  I have to use "~." to logout of my session.  

Try to do a typescript of the session, and look at the script file
after you log out.  If you see a prompt, then a zillion spaces, try
logging back in with a TERM type that you know exists on the HP box. 
If that works, it's a bug that was fixed in October; the patch is in

http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?WORKERNUMBER=8126 

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

Re: 3.1.6: HP-UX 10.20 binary chokes on 11.0

[Zefram]

Clint Olsen wrote:
>I don't quite know how to explain it.  It's as if the cursor is jumping
>wildly across the line.  I have to use "~." to logout of my session.  

Sounds a bit like the "endless spaces" refresh bug, which was fixed in
one of the recent dev releases.  (Funnily enough, I ran into that bug
myself a few days after it was reported here, on an HP-UX system.)

Anyway, basically you can't expect a zsh compiled for one OS to run
on another.  I wouldn't attempt to port a binary from 10.20 to 11:
they're different in so many details that you really should have a
separate binary.  (At the place where I was using HP-UX, I had separate
binaries for 10.10, 10.20 and 11.  Plus Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 and AIX,
but of course they *really* need separate binaries.)

-zefram

Re: 3.1.6: HP-UX 10.20 binary chokes on 11.0

[Ollivier Robert]

According to Clint Olsen:
> I don't quite know how to explain it.  It's as if the cursor is jumping
> wildly across the line.  I have to use "~." to logout of my session.  

I'm getting this with older snap of zsh but only if the term I use on the
local machine is unknown on the remote HP (like xterm-color).
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