Re: ncurses-5.6 build problems on Darwin/MacOSX

[sci-fi]

Hi,

> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Okay *now* I remember something about this version of libtool,
> > I think they changed the --version syntax just a bit:
> >>>>> 
> > # /usr/local/bin/glibtool --version
> >
> > ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.23a (1.1220.2.416 2006/10/24 20:18:28)
> >
> > Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> It looks as if it's putting out a blank line at the beginning.
> That's easy to fix in a sed script.

I'll try to see if they know about it in some manner at
savannah.gnu.org...

> > # _
> > <<<<
> > That's verbatim with extra linefeeds & all.
> > Yeah I think I hit this before on other projects...
> >
> >> [...]
> >> I think the immediate problem is why the configure script's not
> >> getting the libtool version.
> >
> > Let's see what we need to do to get it working this far.  There
> > doesn't seem to be a "short version string" option, so I wonder if
> > this GNU team knows they may break scripts for not having a
> > standardised version text.  ;)
>
> It's a problem with more than one.  I've made 2-3 fixes to keep up with 
> gcc.

I'm thinking to ask in the gnulib maillist if we should be
considering an autoconf or m4 macro or ~something~ so these tools
can produce "expectable" (predictable) version output (heh, does
that make sense? ;) ).  I think if it's in gnulib, the other GNU
projects might be easier to be talked into using it.

> > So ... what to do, where to go next?  In meantime I could force
> > configure to simply say 'yes' here and see what comes.  ;)
>
> That "should" work, since it's not using the version for anything
> specific.

Oh good ... then I've bypassed that one if-fi section e.g.:
> > > >
--- configure_origg     2006-12-28 09:44:31 -0600
+++ configure   2006-12-29 04:51:31 -0600
@@ -4139,11 +4139,11 @@
	cf_cv_libtool_version=`$LIBTOOL --version 2>&1 | sed -e '2,$d' -e 
's/([^)]*)//g' -e 's/^[^1-9]*//' -e 's/[^0-9.].*//'`
        echo "$as_me:4140: result: $cf_cv_libtool_version" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}$cf_cv_libtool_version" >&6
-       if test -z "$cf_cv_libtool_version" ; then
-               { { echo "$as_me:4143: error: This is not libtool" >&5
-echo "$as_me: error: This is not libtool" >&2;}
-   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
-       fi
+#      if test -z "$cf_cv_libtool_version" ; then
+#              { { echo "$as_me:4143: error: This is not libtool" >&5
+#echo "$as_me: error: This is not libtool" >&2;}
+#   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+#      fi

        # special hack to add --tag option for C++ compiler
        case $cf_cv_libtool_version in
<<<<

... and the build & install went fine -- libtool definitely is
very careful about not leaving a missing-lib hole while
installing.  As for proof, fwiw, a test shows:
> > > >
[~/Projects/ncurses-5.6/test]# ./ncurses
Welcome to ncurses 5.6.20061223.  Press ? for help.
This is the ncurses main menu
a = keyboard and mouse input test
b = character attribute test
c = color test pattern
d = edit RGB color values
e = exercise soft keys
f = display ACS characters
g = display windows and scrolling
i = test of flushinp()
k = display character attributes
m = menu code test
o = exercise panels library
p = exercise pad features
q = quit
r = exercise forms code
s = overlapping-refresh test
? = repeat this command summary
> q
<<<<

Some of the playthings here esp. tclock has issues erasing the
background colours (full single-line black areas), but that might
be an Apple Terminal problem, too (but it's not the same shade of
black I've set for Terminal to use, just so I can tell these
things ;) ).  I'll research it further as I can...

fwiw I never can afford a $pay-for$ ADC account so I'm not privvy
to see what's going on with Leopard, but I'm hoping we can
band-together and get Apple to update every open project they
provide as part of OSX.  Only method I know is to fill-out
bugreports separately requesting each piece to be updated...

Thank you for helping.  I would like to document another headache
with ncurses-5.x but I'll scoot for now to get some R&R.  :)