Re: Building tn5250 from CVS

>>>
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.
<<<

That was it :-) Mind you, I didn't get a lot further as I couldn't get
aclocal to complete - turned out libtool wasn't installed[1]. Once that was
sorted configure gave up because ncurses-devel[2] wasn't there. I've just
(last week) put Mandrake 7.0 onto a new disk, and the full install doesn't
put any of the devel packages on unless you say that your PC is primarily
for software development. However it's all sorted now - Thanks for your
help.

If it's any consolation Sean, I also get [H when pressing the home key,
even with the CVS build.

Regards, Martin

[1] A search with the error message at Google turned this one up - first go
;-)
[2] configure said a curses-compatibale (sic) library was required. I could
find plenty of libncurses.so files, so this one puzzled me at first, then I
remembered the devel versions are also needed for building from source.
It's slowly sinking in...
--
martin_rowe@moores.co.uk


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