Re: lynx-dev Black background wanted

[T.E.Dickey]

> > > ...but there were errors when running make:-  
> > > ../include/ncurses_cfg.h:51: warning: `GCC_' redefined  
> > > ../include/ncurses_cfg.h:50: warning: this is the location of the  
> > there's a substitution missing -- the "GCC_" is the first part of 
> > a name such as "GCC_UNUSED".  So something's amiss with your environment. 
>  
> Not surprising really...  
>  
> Any ideas where to look? emx, autoconf, ksh, config.sys... 
I'd look in the shell first.  It's generated in the macro CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES
(in aclocal.m4).

If it's the only place, you can comment-out the call for that from
configure.in, since (I think) there's fallback definitions in the
header files.  But I assume that something's amiss with one of the
tools, and you may get other problems.  (This would be a problem
processing a here-document - but different from what I had).

To debug - I set the "-x" option of the shell, and redirect it to
a file, or in vile, I read it directly into a buffer, e.g.,

        ^X!configure
 
(that's a control/X).  I don't know what sort of tools you have.
There's an executable for OS/2 VIO vile on my webpage.

> > > 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?   
> > maybe.  I put some comparable stuff from my last build (5 weeks ago) 
> > in 
> >     http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/lynx/lynx/patches/emx-ncurses.zip 
>  
> Too many lynx in there :-) but I did mange to track it down... 
ok (too fast to paste)
   
> > It won't be identical, but you can use it for comparison. 
>  
> Many thanks, 
no problem - 

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