Re: Building tn5250 from CVS

Martin Rowe wrote:

> Hi
>
> Yet another newbie question I'm afraid...
>
> I've picked up the latest sources from CVS (using a 'cvs checkout tn5250')
> and run autoconf to build the configure script. So far so good. When I then
> run ./configure I get the following:
> [mrowe@DEV1 tn5250]$ ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> ./configure: line 540: syntax error near unexpected token `(tn5250,'
> ./configure: line 540: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (tn5250, 0.15.8)'

Do you have automake installed?  That's my only guess :)

> Is this indicative of some environment variable I haven't set, or something
> else entirely. ? What other info do people need to suggest a solution?
>
> This is my first time building it this way, as I just used the tarballs,
> and latterly Henri's rpms, up to now. I've run across the same problems as
> Sean mentioned in the 'tn5250 0.15.7 (CVS version) problems: home key, FER'
> thread, and I wanted to try out Jason's fixes.
>
> One other problem I've had with 0.15.7 is that the cursor now returns to
> the first input field after every screen refresh. Previously (0.15.6) this
> only happened when a status message appeared [1]. For example, taking an
> option 6 (to print) against a source member in PDM should leave the cursor
> on the option line, but it now returns to the sourcefile field.

You'll be happy to know that the cursor now stays where it is supposed to.

> Regards, Martin
>
> [1] I get these a lot as I have a message handling program that resends my
> user & workstation messages as status messages - too lazy to hit SysRq 4
> when the MW flag pops up ;)
> --
> martin_rowe@moores.co.uk

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