Re: lynx-dev Black background wanted

[John Poltorak]

> > > There's a better version of the terminfo in ncurses 4.2 (emx.src). 
> > > I'm not sure if Ripoll's incorporated that (it's usually a slow 
> > > connection 
> > > to his site). 
> >  
> > I downloaded it the other day, but the prospect of building the 
> > library is a little daunting. The whole archive is almost 6MB, and 
> > there isn't anything like a README.OS2 or makefile.emx to help me get 
> > started.  
> once you have the environment (pdksh, autoconf), it's simple:
>
>       unzip ncurses
>       cd ncurses
>       chmod -R u+w .
>       autoconf

Well... That looks simple enough, but there are plenty of things to
trip you up on the way, although I think I'm pretty close now... 
...glad you mentioned the chmod.

>       cp {whatever}/config.guess .
>       cp {whatever}/config.sub   .

Not sure where thing are getting copied here...

>       make

Configure produced the following Makefile:-

# Generated automatically from Makefile.in by configure.
# $Id: Makefile.in,v 1.15 1998/02/11 12:13:39 tom Exp $
##############################################################################
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# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,   #
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL    #
# THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER      #
# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING    #
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# Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright     #
# holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, #
# use or other dealings in this Software without prior written               #
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##############################################################################
#
# Author: Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden> 1996,1997
#
# Master Makefile for ncurses library.

SHELL = sh

INSTALL_PREFIX=
CF_MFLAGS = $(MFLAGS) INSTALL_PREFIX="$(INSTALL_PREFIX)"



NCURSES_MAJOR   = 4
NCURSES_MINOR   = 2
NCURSES_PATCH   = 980228

prefix          = /usr/local
exec_prefix     = ${prefix}

bindir          = ${exec_prefix}/bin
datadir         = ${prefix}/share
includedir      = ${prefix}/include
libdir          = ${exec_prefix}/lib
mandir          = ${prefix}/man

DIRS_TO_MAKE = lib objects obj_g

all ::  $(DIRS_TO_MAKE)

$(DIRS_TO_MAKE) :
        mkdir $@

preinstall :
        @ echo ''
        @ echo '** Configuration summary for NCURSES 
$(NCURSES_MAJOR).$(NCURSES_MINOR) $(NCURSES_PATCH):'
        @ echo ''
        @ echo '      bin directory: '$(bindir)
        @ echo '      lib directory: '$(libdir)
        @ echo '  include directory: '$(includedir)
        @ echo '      man directory: '$(mandir)
        @ echo ' terminfo directory: '$(datadir)/terminfo
        @ echo ''
        @ if test "$(includedir)" != "$(prefix)/include" ; then \
                echo '** Include-directory is not in a standard location'; fi

# Put the common rules here so that we can easily construct the list of
# directories to visit.
all \
clean \
distclean \
mostlyclean \
realclean \
sources \
uninstall \
install ::
        cd man && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@
        cd include && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@
        cd ncurses && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@
        cd progs && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@
        cd panel && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@
        cd menu && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@
        cd form && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@
        cd misc && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@
        cd test && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

install.libs \
uninstall.libs \
install.includes \
uninstall.includes ::
        cd include && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

lint \
lintlib \
install.libs \
uninstall.libs \
install.ncurses \
uninstall.ncurses ::
        cd ncurses && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

lint \
lintlib \
install.libs \
uninstall.libs \
install.progs \
uninstall.progs ::
        cd progs && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

install.includes \
uninstall.includes \
lint \
lintlib \
install.libs \
uninstall.libs \
install.panel \
uninstall.panel ::
        cd panel && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

install.includes \
uninstall.includes \
lint \
lintlib \
install.libs \
uninstall.libs \
install.menu \
uninstall.menu ::
        cd menu && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

install.includes \
uninstall.includes \
lint \
lintlib \
install.libs \
uninstall.libs \
install.form \
uninstall.form ::
        cd form && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

lint \
lintlib \
install.libs \
uninstall.libs \
install.test \
uninstall.test ::
        cd test && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

install.data ::
        cd misc && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

install.man ::
        cd man && $(MAKE) $(CF_MFLAGS) $@

distclean ::
        rm -f config.cache config.log config.status Makefile 
include/ncurses_cfg.h
        rm -f headers.sh headers.sed
        rm -rf $(DIRS_TO_MAKE)



...but there were errors when running make:-

gcc -o make_hash.exe -O2 -Zmt -Zmt -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__  -I../ncurses
-I.  -DNDEBUG  -I. -I../include -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-DTERMINFO=\"/usr/local/share/terminfo\" -DMAIN_PROGRAM ./comp_hash.c
-Zcrtdll -Zsysv-signals -Zbin-files -Zmt -Zcrtdll -lsocket -lbsd 
In file included from ../ncurses/curses.priv.h:52,
                 from ./comp_hash.c:41:
../include/ncurses_cfg.h:45: invalid macro name `1'
../include/ncurses_cfg.h:50: warning: `GCC_' redefined
../include/ncurses_cfg.h:49: warning: this is the location of the
previous definition 
../include/ncurses_cfg.h:51: warning: `GCC_' redefined
../include/ncurses_cfg.h:50: warning: this is the location of the
previous definition
make[1]: *** [make_hash.exe] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/ncurses-4.2/ncurses'
make: *** [all] Error 2

There is so much scope for error, but I'm amazed I got this far.

Is this getting too far off-topic for this list? 

> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey
> address@hidden
> http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
> 

-- 
John