Build on solaris (was Re: LYNX-DEV Patch-o-matic!)

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> Alas, I still have been unable to build a working version of this
> version of lynx, at least with the configure scripts.
> ...
> export PATH=/vol/SUNWspro5.1/bin:$PATH
> export LIBS="-L/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/lib 
> -R/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/lib"
> export CPPFLAGS="-I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/include 
> -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/include/ncurses"
> export CFLAGS="-fast -xO5 -xdepend -v"
> export CC=cc
> ...
> $ make solaris -f makefile
 (try "make -f makefile solaris" here)

> cd WWW/Library/unix; make CC="cc" \
>       LYFLAGS="-DDIRED_SUPPORT -DLONG_LIST  -DEXP_CHARTRANS -I../../.. 
> -DNGROUPS=16 -Dd_namlen=d_reclen -DSOLARIS2 -DSVR4"
> make: Warning: Both `makefile' and `Makefile' exist
> Current working directory 
> /projects/npd/npdweb/src/Unix/lynx/test/lynx2-7/WWW/Library/unix
> followed by a long series of compiles, with various warnings, and then:
> Linking and creating Lynx executable
> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/include
> -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/include/ncurses -I..
> -I../WWW/Library/Implementation -DDIRED_SUPPORT -DOK_TAR -DOK_ZIP
> -DOK_GZIP -DOK_UUDECODE -DOK_OVERRIDE -DOK_PERMIT -DEXP_CHARTRANS -fast
> -xO5 -xdepend -v -o lynx LYClean.o LYShowInfo.o LYEdit.o LYStrings.o
> ...
> UCAux.o UCAuto.o ../WWW/Library/unix/libwww.a
> -L/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/lib
> -R/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/lib -lnsl -lsocket -lnsl

> Undefined                     first referenced
>  symbol                           in file
> noecho                              LYCurses.o
> curscr                              GridText.o
> endwin                              LYCurses.o
> ...
> Notice that even though I tried to tell configure I wanted ncurses, it didn't
> add the library to the makefile link step or any compile time flag to indicate
> ncurses should be used.
> 
> I still have to figure out the changes I need to edit into userdefs.h to
> handle my local environment.  Hopefully my regular userdefs.h will be
> able to be used pretty much as is.

Where is your (n)curses library?  If it is in a non-standard location, you
may need to specify where it is with another -L or -l.

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Marvin the Paranoid Android says:
Come on then; let's get this over with as soon as possible.

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