Re: [Lynx-dev] help sought to resolve lynx 2-8-6 failure to build on sparc solaris 8

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Larry W. Virden wrote:

> I am attempting to configure and build lynx on a sparc solaris 8 machine
> using Sun's C compiler, version Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3.
> I am using these flags for configuration.
...
> When I try to build, I get this error.
> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  \
        -I/projects/intranet/include \
        -I/projects/intranet/include \
        -I/volws/lwv28/ldatae/include \
        -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include \
        -D__EXTENSIONS__ \
        -I../../..  \
        -I../../../src  \
        -I/home/lwv28/i/src/Unix/lynx/t/lynx2-8-6 \
        -I/home/lwv28/i/src/Unix/lynx/t/lynx2-8-6/src \
        -I/home/lwv28/i/src/Unix/lynx/t/lynx2-8-6/WWW/Library/Implementation \
        -g -Xc \
        -I/home/lwv28/i/src/Unix/lynx/t/lynx2-8-6/WWW/Library/Implementation/ \
        -DACCESS_AUTH \
        -c \
        
/home/lwv28/i/src/Unix/lynx/t/lynx2-8-6/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c

> "/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include/curses.h", line 111: cannot find include 
> file: <stdbool.h>
> cc: acomp failed for 
> /home/lwv28/i/src/Unix/lynx/t/lynx2-8-6/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c
> *** Error code 2
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `HTParse.o'
> Current working directory 
> /projects/intranet/src/Unix/lynx/t/lynx2-8-6/WWW/Library/Implementation
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
>
> Can anyone help me figure out what to provide to the configuration so that lynx 
> builds?

The configure script (which is biased toward gcc) decided that it found
stdbool.h (probably part of the gcc/g++ header files).  To appease the
resulting configuration, you'll have to add a -I option that points to
the directory where stdbool.h is located.  I'm guessing it's under

        /projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/lib/

but that's not necessarily good, since gcc's private header files (not 
stdbool.h, I expect) tend to have gcc-isms that may not be palatable to 
Sun's compiler.  You might try adding a -I option to point there, just to 
see what happens.  Otherwise, copying it someplace such as 
/volws/lwv28/ldatae/include might make it compile properly.

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