Re: Configuration and build problems.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:00:37PM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> Some problems with building ncurses V5.3 on AIX 4.3.3, using xlc_r
> (ibmcxx.cmp 3.6.6.7).
> 
> Configure command:
>       ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-overwrite
> --disable-database \
>             --without-ada --without-curses-h -disable-leaks \
>             --disable-ext-funcs --disable-termcap
> Problem 1: If the option --with-shared is added to the above command,
> configure fails with the following message:
>             configure: error: Shared libraries are not supported in this
> version.

you might try libtool - that may work (the documentation states that it
works, though it is not clear if it is dependent upon gcc)
 
> Problem 2:
>       Quotes are missing in the configure script, line 4490:
>             if test -z $with_fallback ; then
>       If $with_fallback is null, then the following error message occurs:
>             test: argument expected
>       The configure script proceeds; it does not exit with the expected
> error message ("You have disabled the database w/o specifying fallbacks").

thanks (I thought I'd gotten all of those)
 
> Problem 3:
>       Options --disable-leaks and --disable-ext-funcs are incompatible.
> 
>       The option --disable-leaks has the following results:
>             NO_LEAKS is defined in confdefs.h (configure lines 6031-6035)
>             call _nc_free_and_exit is generated in infocmp.c, function
> ExitProgram, lines 88-101.

ok - I don't combine those often.
 
>       But, if the option --disable-ext-funcs is also supplied:
>             LIB_SUBSETS does not include "ext_funcs" (configure line
> 10345).
>             Neither does cf_subsets (configure line 11622)
>             And therefore lib_freeall.c is not compiled, because that file
> is part of the ext_funcs section in ncurses/modules (line 149).
> 
>       The end result is a link error - _nc_free_and_exit is not defined.

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