Re: bugs in 1.99.16 on Cygwin

[db serafini]

Pete Wyckoff wrote:

> address@hidden said:
>
> > using gcc-3.2 and (mostly) current Cygwin packages (as of 1/1/03)
> > I find a few bugs building with 'configure --without-x'
>
> Caveat:  there is no Cygwin environment here for me to play on, so
> I can only take some guesses.
>
>
> > 1) it doesn't find "term.h".  ncurses is installed.  As a workaround
> > I made a symlink from /usr/include/ncurses/term.h to /usr/include/term.h
>
> Can you show me the configure output for this bit, and the make output
> for the file that failed?  I'm a bit confused as to how it could find
> ncurses.h but not term.h since they're likely in the same place.


Here's the problem.  My installation already had
a symlink from /usr/include/ncurses.h to /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h,
but didn't have one for term.h.  I assume this confused 'configure'.
So you're correct that both include files
are in the same place, but both are in ncurses subdir.  I can't say for
sure that this is the way cygwin gets installed.  I may have made the
symlink for ncurses.h in order to install something else. I don't remember.

If I can find another windows machine here that doesn't already have cygwin,

I'll try a clean install and see what it does.


> > 2a) gcc gets warning:
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../oleo-1.99.16-dist/lib -I.. -I.. 
> > -I../../oleo-1.9
> > 9.16-dist/lib -I../intl    -g -O2 -c ../../oleo-1.99.16-dist/lib/obstack.c
> > ../../oleo-1.99.16-dist/lib/obstack.c: In function `print_and_abort':
> > ../../oleo-1.99.16-dist/lib/obstack.c:470: warning: passing arg 1 of 
> > `fputs' makes pointer from integer without a cast
>
> This also seems not possible for me to reproduce.  A few lines above
> that function is where <libintl.h> should be included, with the
> declaration for gettext().  Any idea what could be happening?  Is
> gettext() not in your header file?


The header file is full of declarations of gettext(), with many #ifdef's.
I'll try to determine what it's really doing.

Thanks for your response.

-david


>                 -- Pete