Re: Building any ncurses source on Mac OS 10.1.5

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Scott Corscadden wrote:

> Ah - nothing is ever easy. Must have gotten confused. Redownloaded 5.3,
> applied latest rollup. For lynx2-8-5, errored out (could it be that the
> default ncurses "sudo make install" places the libraries where they're
> not seen?). Will next try 2-8-4, but first, here's the output for

That's possible.  What I know of OS X is that originally (I don't know
version numbers) it came with a BSD curses, but shortly after ncurses
was added.  There are problems installing shared libraries (the system
prefers the ones that are already there).  But I don't have direct
access to OS X - it's all secondhand info.

> 2-8.5:
>
> bash-2.05$ ./configure --with-screen=ncurses
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5
> Configuring for darwin5.5
...
> checking for initscr... yes
> checking for ncurses version... (cached) 5.4.20040110

that's better.  One part is puzzling - the problem you're looking at. If
initscr is found initially, that implies the configure script was able to
link "some" curses functions from the system library.  But it might not be
the one you want.  The link command shown doesn't list a "-lncurses" for
instance (or a "-L" option to tell what directory to get it from).  When
you have more than one curses library installed, sometimes you have to
give the configure script some help (it tries, but there are a lot of ways
to fail).  I'd set the $LIBS variable before configuring lynx to point to
the latest library (and possibly $CPPFLAGS in case it got confused about
headers - though that doesn't seem to be a problem here).  For example
(I'm not sure where your library is installed):

        setenv LIBS "-L/usr/local/lib -lncurses"

> Linking and creating Lynx executable
> cc -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -I. -I.. -Ichrtrans
> -I./chrtrans -I.. -I../src -I../WWW/Library/Implementation   -O2   -o
> lynx  LYClean.o LYShowInfo.o LYEdit.o LYStrings.o LYMail.o HTAlert.o
> GridText.o LYGetFile.o LYMain.o LYMainLoop.o LYCurses.o LYBookmark.o
> LYUtils.o LYOptions.o LYReadCFG.o LYSearch.o LYHistory.o LYForms.o
> LYPrint.o LYrcFile.o LYDownload.o LYNews.o LYKeymap.o HTML.o
> HTFWriter.o HTInit.o DefaultStyle.o LYUpload.o LYLeaks.o LYexit.o
> LYJump.o LYList.o LYCgi.o LYTraversal.o LYEditmap.o LYCharSets.o
> LYCharUtils.o LYMap.o LYCookie.o LYStyle.o LYHash.o LYPrettySrc.o
> TRSTable.o UCdomap.o UCAux.o UCAuto.o  LYLocal.o
> ../WWW/Library/Implementation/libwww.a
> /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> _acs_map
> _getmouse
> _ungetmouse
> _scrollok
> _clearok
> _keypad
> _mouseinterval
> _mousemask
> _wborder
> _wtouchln
> make[1]: *** [lynx] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> ./sc
>
> On Feb 7, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Scott Corscadden wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, I spoke too soon - 2.8.3 failed too, but in a different place.
> >> Here's the output for 2.8.5:
> >>
> >> bash-2.05$ ./configure
> >> creating cache ./config.cache
> >> checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5
> >> Configuring for darwin5.5
> > ...
> >
> >> checking for screen type... curses
> >> checking for extra include directories... no
> >> checking if we have identified curses headers... curses.h
> >> checking for curses.h... yes
> >> checking for ncurses version... 5.2.20001021
> >
> > Is this correct?  I was thinking that you were building 5.3
> >
> >> checking if we have identified curses libraries... yes
> >> checking for curses performance tradeoff... no
> >> checking for curses touchline function... bsd
> >
> > For whatever reason (the clue would be in config.log), the configure
> > check to distinguish two flavors of touchline() did not work.  You
> > can usually work around this using
> >
> >     configure --with-screen=ncurses
> >
> >> cc -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> >> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -I. -I.. -Ichrtrans
> >> -I./chrtrans -I.. -I../src -I../WWW/Library/Implementation   -O2  -c
> >> ./LYCurses.c
> >> ./LYCurses.c:1732: too many args (4) to macro 'touchline' (3 expected)
> >> cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in
> >> basic mode
> >> make[1]: *** [LYCurses.o] Error 1
> >> make: *** [all] Error 2
> >> bash-2.05$
> >>
> >> ./sc
> >>
> >> On Feb 7, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Scott Corscadden wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Whoops! Strike that last comment - 2.8.3 seems to have gotten by the
> >>>> LYCurses.o file. Apologies, and have a great weekend Thomas.
> >>>
> >>> What was the error message for 2.8.5?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Thomas E. Dickey
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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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>

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