[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Compaq Tru64 Unix Alpha platform - Building freeciv

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > 6) The last problema I've found is a very unlike to happen one,
> > my problem is related to configure and readline library, the Tru64
> > Unix is somewhat non standard (or too standard! who knows?) and
> > when asked to build with the readline library, it doesn't work
> > unless you use the termcap or the curses library.
> > The configure of freeciv handle this problem quite correctly, but
> > there is still a problem, the configure script search in the
> > termlib, termcap, curses and ncurses (in this order!) for the
> > presence of the initscr function, but when compiling readline need
> > the tgetent family of function the the initscr so finding the
> > support for initscr doesn't imply that the library support the
> > tgetent family of function, this has an insidious side effect,
> > because ncurses library do have support to initscr but do not
> > have support for tgetent, and beeing the last tried, it is the
> > one choose by configure, that fails to build for this reason.
> >
> > I'm not a configure hacker, what I can say is that a solution can be
> > the change of the order, if this don't hurt for other reason,
> > a less stupid way of handling this can be to search for tgetent
> > family function instead of initscr (or for both). I'm open
> > to every suggestion on this point...
>
> I will leave this for Per.

Davide, can you please try to make a patch for configure that fixes this
for you? I know readline and friends so badly (ie not at all), that for me
to make a patch that fixes this for you is going to be very time consuming
for both of us (since I will have to learn the problem and you will have
to test it until it works for you).

Yours,
Per

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