Re: Failure building ncurses 5.6 for ARM9

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 24), Mel Wilson said:
> I'm trying to build ncurses-5.6 for use on an ARM9 system.  I'm
> running the two-command sequence
>     ./configure
>     make
> on the ARM9 system itself.  The ncurses-5.6 source directory is on an 
> NFS server off the ARM9 system.
> 
> The build fails with what seems to be a malformed command line
> somewhere in make:
> 
> [...]
> make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/a/home/mel/ncurses-5.6/c++'
[...]
>make[1]: Warning: File ../include/ncurses_cfg.h' has modification time 3.7e+06 
>s in the future

Your two machines' clocks seem to be are incredibly out of sync
(3700000 seconds is almost 3 years!); you might want to fix that first
and see if another configure run fixes your problems.

> cd ../objects;   -I../c++ -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include  
> -D_GNU_SOURCE  -DNDEBUG  -c ../c++/cursesf.cc
> /bin/sh: line 1: -I../c++: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [../objects/cursesf.o] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/a/home/mel/ncurses-5.6/c++'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> address@hidden:ncurses-5.6#

It looks like you may be missing a C++ compiler, or it's not in your
path:

[...]
> configure:2770: checking for g++
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for c++
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for gpp
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for aCC
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for CC
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for cxx
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for cc++
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for cl
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for FCC
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for KCC
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for RCC
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for xlC_r
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2770: checking for xlC
> configure:2796: result: no
> configure:2808: checking for C++ compiler version
> configure:2811: g++ --version </dev/null >&5
> ./configure: line 1: g++: command not found

If you don't have a c++ compilter, try adding --without-cxx to your
./configure line.

-- 
        Dan Nelson
        address@hidden