Re: Problems with ncurses 5.3

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:55:03AM -0700, habib valanejad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all, I'd like to thank you for your nice package. I'd also like to 
> let
> you know that I successfully compiled ncurses 5.3 package on Solaris 9 (Sparc)
> using Sun's forte6 compiler and worked. However, I noticed some messages 
> during 
> installation which you may want to take a look at (APPENDIX I). 
> Also, I'm having problems with applying the patches on my Solaris 
> workstation. I downloaded 5.3 patches but I do not know how to apply them.
> I tried whatever you mentioned in your documents but did not work.
> It keeps asking me for "File to patch:" (please see APPENDIX II).
> If I give it the patch filename, it fails and then when I want to install the
> other one it says:
> This does not look like ncurses 5.3
> 
> 
> Would you tell me how should I install those patches?

You need only one of the patch-XXX.sh files.  I leave older ones on my ftp
site for some other developers.  The xxx-patch.gz files are weekly patches,
which you can ignore.

Assume ncurses-5.3.tar.gz and patch-5.3-20030719.sh are in the current
directory.  The script assumes you have installed GNU patch (2.54 works),
and have uudecode in your path.

gzip -dc ncurses-5.3.tar.gz |tar xf -
cd ncurses-5.3
sh ../patch-5.3-20030719.sh


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