Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx 2.8.5 on BeOS

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Nigel Horne wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Nigel Horne wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to build the latest Lynx on BeOS professional 5.0.
> > >
> > > I can't get configure to locate the curses header files:
> >
> > try
> >     configure ---with-screen=ncurses
>
> It got a bit further, thanks, but configure bombs out linked against
> ncurses:
>
> checking for ncurses version... no
> checking for Gpm_Open in -lgpm... no
> checking for initscr... no
> checking for initscr in -lncurses... no
> configure: error: Cannot link ncurses library
>
> So I did:
> configure --with-screen=ncurses --with-curses-dir=/usr/local
>
> and now configure ran OK. Trying make (cross fingers).
>
> Two suspicious messages from configure:
>
> ....
> checking for library with inet_addr... no
> configure: warning: Unable to find library for inet_addr function

you're going to run into problems with BeOS here, since its socket 
interface isn't compatible with anything.  I've seen some reference to a 
patched network library for BeOS, but was unable to find a copy that might 
work (recalling only that I found some code that could never have worked 
;-).

I've a BeOS R4.5 with a workable network interface (and lynx won't connect 
via that) and a BeOS 5.0 - but no workable network interface.  (Since it's 
one of 15 OS's on the same box, I'm reluctant to change the hardware 
around at random to search for a workable network card...).

> ....
> /bin/basename: too few arguments
> Try `/bin/basename --help' for more information.
> /bin/basename: too few arguments
> Try `/bin/basename --help' for more information.

this could be a scripting error

> ../configure: test: =: unary operator expected

and this too

> checking for ncurses version... no
>
>
> -Nigel

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