Re: Building tn5250 from CVS

On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 09:33:11AM +0000, Martin Rowe wrote:
> >>>
> 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.
> <<<
> 
> If it's any consolation Sean, I also get [H when pressing the home key,
> even with the CVS build.

Huhn?  This is really beginning to bug me!  I'll play around with it some
today, but...

> 
> 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...

Spelling error in configure corrected in CVS.  ;-)

> --
> martin_rowe@moores.co.uk
> 
> 

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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