Re: Building tn5250 from CVS

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:10:17AM +0000, 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)'
> 
> 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 happens when you haven't run `aclocal' first.  Use the autogen.sh
script in CVS to run aclocal, autoheader, autoconf, and automake in the
proper order.

> 
> 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.

This has been fixed in CVS (I think).

> 
> 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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