On 26 Jun 2001 16:53:07 -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > >> >Let see if I understand this "problem". You have both libtermcap and > >> >libncurses installed, fvwm chooses libtermcap to be used together with > >> >libreadline, and you don't like this. > > Sorry, I misread this question before. That is *not* the problem. > > The problem is that "./configure ; make all" results in a build > failure. Termcap is not available on this system, and ./configure > acted as if it was anyhow, because the absense of termcap is not > automatically detected. I do not care whether this program uses ncurses > or termcap if both are available, but if only one is available, it should > automatically use that.
Ok, now I understand the problem. > After I applied my patch, the FvwmConsole program linked correctly > (with "-lreadline -lncurses" instead of "-lreadline -ltermcap"), and > installed without errors. I hope I explained why your patch seemed to work for you. It is a combination of events that works on your system only. > I will try to figure out how to use FvwmConsole to attempt the other > test you requested. Add this line to your fvwmrc and press Alt-F12 (after restarting): Key F12 A M Module FvwmConsole > I believe that ncurses can be configured to install a symlink > from /usr/lib/libtermcap.a to /usr/lib/ncurses.a, or at least that older > verions of ncurses could, and that this may have hidden the problem before. Yes, this may be a problem. Please investigate whether you have good libtermcap.a and/or libtermcap.so. configure checks that a trivial program containing one call readline() works with "-lreadline -ltermcap" and decides that termcap library is ok. This is not a perfect check, but it was such since fvwm-2.1.x versions. What build error do you get? BTW, which mailer do you use, it does not add References: and In-Reply-To: headers, so threads are not preserved... Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
