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Re: [patch] configure.in: revert osf5.1 no-noncurses special case
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 06:23:08PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:52:27 -0400 (EDT)
> From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
> > Personally, I don't see the point in worrying about this. If you've got
> > a broken ncurses installation - one where the linker finds -lncurses but
> > gcc doesn't, or vice versa, is broken in my book - it's your problem.
>
> Right now I have *no way to fix it*. I built ncurses 5.2, ncurses 5.3,
> and ncurses 5.4 on this system, and I built gdbtui with each of them and
> ran each of them. All of them work. But I had to hack the Makefile to
> do it, because there is no configuration option to tell gdb to use
> $MIGCHAIN_DIR_INSTALL/host/ncurses-5.4. (And I can't install any
> software as root on this system).
>
> Suppose I want to test a new version of ncurses?
>
> Suppose I have an oddball platform and I need to patch ncurses in
> order to use it?
>
> The way this is supposed to work with autoconf is that you set the
> right environment variables (CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS) before running
> configure. Unfortunately most configure scripts out there don't
> respect these variables, because folks overide these variables in
> their Makefile.in.
But we don't. Michael, is there any reason this wouldn't have worked
for you?
CPPFLAGS="-I$MIGCHAIN_DIR_INSTALL/host/ncurses-5.4/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L$MIGCHAIN_DIR_INSTALL/host/ncurses-5.4/lib" \
$src/configure
Or even:
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" \
$src/configure
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Daniel Jacobowitz