[ap-utils] Solaris build problems

Roman Festchook roma at polesye.net
Fri Feb 27 03:00:02 EET 2004


On Friday 27 February 2004 01:07, Daniel E. Eisenbud wrote:
> Great, thanks!  It didn't build, but the attached patch makes it work.
Patch applayed - thanks!

> It might be better to add a specific autoconf check for ncurses.h, and
> if that's not there, use curses.h and -lcurses, rather than making
> dependant on Solaris, since lots of people do use ncurses on Solaris (it
> at least used to be faster and generally nicer.)  That way you might
> have a chance of compiling out of the box on other platforms without
> ncurses, too.
You right - configure.in rewriten to define if ncurses or curses lib installed 
to the system - and ncurses lib is preffered to use, curses.h also set as 
default to include if ncurses not installed.
And http://ap-utils.polesye.net/files/ap-utils-latest.tar.bz2 need to be 
tested:))

Have Fun!

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