INSTALL

[Martin MOKREJÅ]

Hi,
  there're some problems to reach you. :(

I've one more note the the original e-mail attached:

cd ../objects;  cc -I../ncurses -I.  -I. -I../include 
-I/usr/local/include/ncurses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O3 -n32 -TARG:platform=IP22  -c 
../ncurses/./base/safe_sprintf.c
cd ../objects;  cc -I../ncurses -I.  -I. -I../include 
-I/usr/local/include/ncurses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O3 -n32 -TARG:platform=IP22  -c 
../ncurses/./tty/tty_update.c
cd ../objects;  cc -I../ncurses -I.  -I. -I../include 
-I/usr/local/include/ncurses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O3 -n32 -TARG:platform=IP22  -c 
../ncurses/./trace/varargs.c
cd ../objects;  cc -I../ncurses -I.  -I. -I../include 
-I/usr/local/include/ncurses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O3 -n32 -TARG:platform=IP22  -c 
../ncurses/./base/memmove.c
cd ../objects;  cc -I../ncurses -I.  -I. -I../include 
-I/usr/local/include/ncurses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O3 -n32 -TARG:platform=IP22  -c 
../ncurses/./base/sigaction.c
cd ../objects;  cc -I../ncurses -I.  -I. -I../include 
-I/usr/local/include/ncurses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O3 -n32 -TARG:platform=IP22  -c 
../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c
cc-1185 cc: WARNING File = ../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c, Line = 268
  An enumerated type is mixed with another type.

                            if ((check = final_ch(format[n], other)) != 
cUnknown) {
                                                             ^

cc-1185 cc: WARNING File = ../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c, Line = 271
  An enumerated type is mixed with another type.

                            } else if ((check = other_ch(format[n])) != 
oUnknown) {
                                              ^



Couldn't the make process do chdir() just once and then compile?
I think it really slows down the process.

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> Subject: 
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> INSTALL
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> Date: 
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> Tue, 14 May 2002 18:54:03 +0200 (CEST)
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> Hi Thomas,
>   I'm going through the INSTALL file and have some comments,
> hope they help: ;)
>
> INSTALLATION PROCEDURE:
> ----------------------
>
> 1.  First, decide whether you want ncurses to replace your existing library (in
>     which case you'll need super-user privileges) or be installed in parallel
>     with it.
>
>     The --prefix option to configure changes the root directory for installing
>     ncurses.  The default is in subdirectories of /usr/local.  Use
>     --prefix=/usr to replace your default curses distribution.  This is the
>     default for Linux and BSD/OS users.
> ------^ on on Irix system what? I guess it's default on all platforms,
>         at least ./configure --help tell me in section --prefix so.
>
> [...]
>
>     Note however that the configure script attempts to locate previous
>     installation of ncurses, and will set the default prefix according to where
>     it finds the ncurses headers.
>
> -----Probably you may want to mention here, that one can fool the
> configure script having installed previous version of ncurses in some
> way. I think it was related to having libncurses.a having installed as
> libcurses.a, right?
>
>
> 2.  Type `./configure' in the top-level directory of the distribution to
>
>
>
>
> [...]
>
>     If you do not specify any models, the normal and debug libraries will be
>     configured.  Typing `configure' with no arguments is equivalent to:
> --------^ and the link will be done against normal, right?
>
>
>         ./configure --with-normal --with-debug --enable-overwrite
>
>     Typing
>
>         ./configure --with-shared
>
>     makes the shared libraries the default, resulting in
> -------------------------------------^ means that binaries will use shared libs
>                                        instead of static?
>                                         So static have will be also build, 
> right?
>
>         ./configure --with-shared --with-normal --with-debug --enable-overwrite
>
>     If you want only shared libraries, type
>
>         ./configure --with-shared --without-normal --without-debug
>
>     Rules for generating shared libraries are highly dependent upon the choice
>     of host system and compiler.  We've been testing shared libraries on Linux
>     and SunOS with gcc, but more work needs to be done to make shared libraries
>     work on other systems.
>
>     So by default we use static binaries by default (i.e. preconfigured in 
> configure rules, right?).
>
>
>
>
>
>
> In the section with overview of configure options, I'm missing from one
> of your last mail to me about --prefix and --with-install-prefix: ;)
>
> That's expected, given the "--with-install-prefix=/usr/local" below.  The
> install-prefix is just the name of a directory into which you would
> install the
> program so you can tar up the whole tree, for packaging.  It's not the
> same as
> --prefix=/usr/local: for instance I usually test --with-install-prefix by
> something like --with-install-prefix=/tmp/FOO, and verify that all of the
> files are present.  It's also nice for testing because I don't have to
> install as root (and when debugging things that install symbolic links,
> there's
> less to remove if the script fails).
>
>
>
>
> Also, I'd add to the following:
>
>     --enable-symlinks
>         If your system supports symbolic links, make tic use symbolic links
>         rather than hard links to save diskspace when writing aliases in the
>         terminfo database.
> ---------------------------^ This is to be used on AFS client machines,
> reading terminal definition from AFS mounted directories.
>
>
>
>
>
> Hope this helps. ;)
> --
> Martin Mokrejs <address@hidden>
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> tel.: +49-89-3187 3616 , fax:Â +49-89-3187 3585
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