Re: [Fink-users] TekNap was "ncurses"

[Jeffrey E. <su...@gr...>]

I got rid of all the ncurses libraries, and then tried reinstalling from the
package at macosx.forked.net. The program I was trying to get to compile
uses ncurses, at least that is what the only person so far to try said would
accomplish the compile. The program is TekNap. The user said that you need
only Dev tools for 10.1 -- I assume a later version will work as well, and
ncurses , which I've now installed as a package. But I still get 2 errors
when I do the make.

The TekNap ReadMe for OS X states.

"With Rhapsody 5.5, the following needs to be changed in order to have any
programs that use libtermcap run.

ln -s /usr/share/misc/termcap /etc/termcap

The libtermcap.a library is expecting /etc/termcap to exist (at least on the
system I was on), another method to fix this, is to re-compile libtermcap.a
and change the location of the termcap database.

I also discovered that libncurses.a is expecting /usr/local/share/terminfo,
which is a directory of term files, does not exist on Rhapsody. Any ncurses
program will require these files to be in either that location or in each
users home directory as ~/.terminfo
Grabbing the terminfo database from a known working system and installing in
the proper location will fix this small problem.


cpp on Rhapsody has major issues with #define'd macros. In fact it refuses
to accept multi-line macros as being in-valid. There is no real easy fix for
this, other than using cpp -E on a working system cleaning up the result and
replacing the old file."


Since I don't have any access to another system that might have the file,
and am not sure how to achieve the last paragraph, could you suggest how I
might accomplish any of this?
 
Best Regards,
Jeffrey Ellis

on 3/4/02 12:24 PM, fin...@li... at
fin...@li... wrote:

> Subject: Re: [Fink-users] ncurses
> From: "Alexander K. Hansen" <ha...@ps...>
> To: <fin...@li...>
> 
> I don't see an executable called ncurses anywhere on my system either, or a
> 'test' directory (I have ncurses-5.2-6 by the way).  It may be that only the
> libraries are actually ported right now.
> 
> On 3/3/02 13:58, "Jeffrey Ellis" <su...@gr...> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, All--
>> 
>> I just updated and was particularly interested in the latest ncurses. But
>> when I type "ncurses" as a command - what the readme recommends to test if
>> it's been installed properly - I keep getting bad command. This happens no
>> matter what directory I seem to be in. I tried looking for the "test"
>> directory they say is supposed to be installed where all their test apps
>> are, but can't find it anywhere.
>> 
>> Can someone tell me what I did wrong?
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Jeffrey Ellis
>> 
>> 
>> 
> --
> Alexander K. Hansen
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> MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219
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