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Re: CPU Type field in LX header

From David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de>
Newsgroups comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
Subject Re: CPU Type field in LX header
Date 2016-10-29 15:41 +0200
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On 26-10-16 21:15, Doug Bissett wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:37:35 UTC, David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de>
> wrote:
>
>> On 25-10-16 18:50, Doug Bissett wrote:
>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:35:43 UTC, David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What does the /DUP switch do, is there a list of switches available
>>>> anywhere?
>>>>
>>>> Dave P.
>>>
>>> "/DUP" is undocumented, and is really meant for development, but it does
>>>  show the version that is installed.Try it, and it will make sense. I
>>> don't know of any others.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, It helps a bit but I presume the platform column shows which packages
>> it has available or has installed itself and not the file version on disk
>> which was installed from a zip file before ANPM became available.
>>
>> Still I think it will be helpful, thanks.
>>
>> Dave P.
>
> You should never get to the files on the disk, from before you installed
> RPM/YUM (PATH and LIBPATH need to have the YUM paths first, although some
> insist that the dot entry needs to be first in LIBPATH), however, it is still
> possible to use the wrong file, so you really should eliminate ALL duplicates
> of files that are in the \usr directory structure, everywhere else on your
> system (with logical exceptions). Once you get that mess cleaned up, ANPM
> (actually YUM) will control the versions for you, and all you need to do is
> keep them up to date (although that has also been known to cause problems
> when the packages are not built properly).
>


When I finally got fed up trying to keep adding extra dependencies for Firefox & 
Thunderbird by extracting the files from the zip & rpm files on Netlabs and 
decided to use ANPM, I already had a very mature /usr tree for other programs 
which I wanted to keep & I did not want yet another linux directory structure.

I eliminated any duplicates & moved a few stray linux orientated files into 
/usr/... before running ANPM for the first time.

ANPM added the directories at the beginning of PATH & LIBPATH leaving the 
existing entries where they were duplicating the directories in PATH & LIBPATH 
which I later removed.

I had expected ANPM would overwrite any files already on the disk with its 
version but it seems that it did not overwrite all unfortunately.

So now to the present problem. The Firefox 38.*.* series are appallingly slow at 
scrolling and after updating a few files for another reason I noticed that the 
scrolling was noticeably better with these updates which were i686 files so I 
wanted to see if there were any other i386 files which I could update & perhaps 
gain a bit better performance.

This led to the problem of how to identify i386 versions on the disk.
This should have been easy, just look at the CPU_Type field in the LX header.
As we now know, that field is not set as expected by wl.exe without Steven's patch.
I don't know which linker was used to produce the netlabs files but presumably 
it doesn't set it either.



HTH...

Dave P.

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CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-10-22 18:49 +0200
  Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2016-10-22 17:32 +0000
    Re: CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-10-23 18:35 +0200
      Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-24 11:20 +0200
      Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2016-10-25 16:50 +0000
        Re: CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-10-26 17:37 +0200
          Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2016-10-26 19:15 +0000
            Re: CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-10-29 15:41 +0200
              Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 11:43 -0700
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Steven Levine" <steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> - 2016-11-09 19:36 -0600
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 08:52 -0800
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Steven Levine" <steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> - 2016-11-11 10:41 -0600
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 17:04 -0800
              Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2016-10-29 22:22 +0000
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-11-01 17:47 +0100
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2016-11-01 19:18 +0000
  Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 10:48 -0700
    Re: CPU Type field in LX header Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-10-22 21:58 +0200
      Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-22 23:47 +0200
        Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 20:05 -0700
          Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-23 11:08 +0200
            Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 10:33 -0700
              Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-24 12:36 +0200
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-25 16:53 -0400
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-27 10:49 +0200
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-28 21:14 -0700
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-31 14:14 +0100
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 07:59 -0700
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-11-01 14:46 +0100
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-28 21:07 -0700
      Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 20:00 -0700
        Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-23 10:46 +0200
          Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 10:58 -0700
            Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-24 13:04 +0200
              Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-28 21:28 -0700
                Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-31 14:49 +0100
            Re: CPU Type field in LX header "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2016-10-24 13:24 +0200
    Re: CPU Type field in LX header Paul Smedley <paul@smedley.id.au> - 2016-10-23 11:49 +1030
      Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 20:11 -0700
        Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 11:09 -0700
          Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Steven Levine" <steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> - 2016-10-26 15:44 -0500
            Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-28 20:56 -0700
              Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Steven Levine" <steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> - 2016-11-09 19:38 -0600
        Re: CPU Type field in LX header Paul Smedley <paul@smedley.id.au> - 2016-10-27 19:30 +1030
          Re: CPU Type field in LX header Paul Smedley <paul@smedley.id.au> - 2016-10-29 11:39 +1030
            Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-28 20:54 -0700
    Re: CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-10-23 18:45 +0200
      Re: CPU Type field in LX header Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-10-23 19:32 +0200
      Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 11:06 -0700
    Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Steven Levine" <steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> - 2016-10-26 13:44 -0500
      Re: CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-10-29 14:37 +0200
        Re: CPU Type field in LX header Paul Smedley <paul@smedley.id.au> - 2016-10-30 12:13 +1030
          Re: CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-10-30 08:57 +0100
        Re: CPU Type field in LX header "Steven Levine" <steve53@nomail.earthlink.net> - 2016-11-09 19:54 -0600
          Re: CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-11-12 14:48 +0100
  Re: CPU Type field in LX header Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 11:02 -0700
  Re: CPU Type field in LX header Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-10-22 21:54 +0200
  Re: CPU Type field in LX header Lars Erdmann <lars.erdmann@arcor.de> - 2016-10-23 12:56 +0200
    Re: CPU Type field in LX header David Parsons <dwparsons@t-online.de> - 2016-10-23 18:20 +0200
      Re: CPU Type field in LX header Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-23 15:11 -0400

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