[tin-bugs] tin-2.2.1 does not compile

Ulli Horlacher framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de
Sun Apr 26 10:51:52 CEST 2015


On Sun 2015-04-26 (10:11), Urs Janßen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 01:35:54AM +0200, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> > > there should have been a warning about missing yacc or byacc or bison.
> > I have not seen such a warning.
> > Shouln't configure then terminate with an error?
> 
> I don't think so, if configure terminates it doesn't write essential files

I meant: terminate at the regular end with an error message.


> > configure: warning: no term-lib found, you might run into trouble later.
> > What does this mean?
> 
> no lib[n]curses[w], libtermcap or termlib (and related headers) found,
> linking will very likely fail. -> install libncursesw5-dev (or whatever if
> lib is named in yourn distro).

configure should be more verbose in its error message, naming these libs.



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