Re: [Bug-mit-scheme] [bug #34565] ./configure failed for microcode

[Chris Hanson]

Based on warnings I got when building the Debian package, it looks
like the current package we need is libtinfo-dev instead of
libncurses5-dev.  But I haven't spent any time trying to make that
work properly.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Matt Birkholz
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:16:19 +0000
>>
>> [...]  Can someone else on the list who uses Debian or Ubuntu pipe
>> up with the list of packages that you may want before building
>> Scheme?  We should write it down somewhere more permanent, if it
>> hasn't already been written down.
>
> I found MOST of the list in the Debian source package, but still
> missed autoconf, texinfo, texi2html and texlive.
>
> From the bugtracking whatsit...
>
>> Follow-up Comment #2, bug #34565 (project mit-scheme):
>>
>> Yeah, sudo apt-get install m4 solved it. Silly me. What is the
>> significance of the other stuff?
>
> The first line
>
>    sudo apt-get install m4 autoconf autotools-dev libltdl-dev
>
> lists the tools used to create the configure script, except the last,
> which is for portabiklish access to your system's dynamic loader.
>
> The second line
>
>     sudo apt-get install texinfo texi2html texlive
>
> lists the programs needed to build the documentation.
>
> The third line
>
>    sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libmhash-dev libmcrypt-dev  \
>                         libgdbm-dev libpq-dev libncurses5-dev  \
>                         libx11-dev libxt-dev libdb-dev
>
> lists the (optional) shared libraries needed to build all of La
> Machine's "modules".  BTW, leave ALL of these out and Edwin cannot
> run.  (Surprised me once...)  It needs at least libncurses5-dev (for
> its libtermcap.so?), or libx11-dev and libxt-dev?
>
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