At 02:48:18 am, half asleep, I wrote
I have this nagging thought that the installation scripts should be
changed to deal with the problem of allowing security (selinux) settings
to be turned off temporarily for the compilation process to complete.
This morning I've realised that the 'proper' solution is to modify the
instructions for requirements given here, and in scripts where needed, to
specify that the development version of ncurses needs to be installed BEFORE
Poplog.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/required-packages.html
I then discovered that the need for this had previously been identified by one
of the Ubuntu uses, so that the requirements script for Ubuntu already included:
libncurses5 libncurses5-dev
So Ubuntu users following the existing installation instructions would not have
experienced my problem.
Anyhow I have made minor changes to
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/required-packages.html
and associated package pre-install scripts. If the new instructions there are
followed (in Redhat versions of linux) the problem I encountered will not
require any changes in the main installation mechanism described (too verbosely)
here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/AREADME.html
One thing less to worry about now...
Thanks again Steve for identifying the cause of the problem. I no longer do any
real programming and what I've learnt from past experience is receding with
age.... So I don't know whether I would eventually have identified the cause of
the problem without help.
Aaron
