Re: Compilation problems 0.5.4

[Salvador E. T. <sal...@in...>]

J.B. Lethbridge wrote:

>Hallo all:
>
>Another release is always exciting.
>
>But I am trying to compile the new 0.5.4, and having no luck.
>The system is as follows (errors listed below):
>
>kernel 2.2.16
>gcc 2.95.2
>libc6 2.0
>libg++ 2.7.2.8
>ldd 2.1.2
>make 3.77
>gdb 5.3 (is this relevant?)
>  
>

Only if you plan to debug programs, but from what I see you don't.

>tvision 2.0.3 (no problems compiling that)
>
>These are a bit old 
>

Yes, but not too much. Is old enough to be "untested" under such a 
platform, but not old enough to be unsupported.

>of course I suddenly realise, though I normally have
>no compilation problems SET 5.2, emacs, dosemu, kernel -- all work fine.
>
>I have looked for a way to disable the libmigdb in the configure stage,
>with no luck. (I should probably never use it, since I am not a
>programmer, but use SET, not for love letters, but writing papers and
>books. I love the interface, and want some of the new features. Used Set
>happily and gratefully for years now. (Even so, that would be a terrible
>hack, no?)
>  
>

The easiest way to "disable" libmigdb is to just remove it ;-)
Just do "rm -r libmigdb" and reconfigure. The configuration script will 
print a warning about debug features disabled ;-)

>Anyway, perhaps this is some sort of bug report which might be helpful to
>others trying to build it. I hope so.
>  
>

Of course.

>I get the following breakdown:
>
>make -C libmigdb
>make[1]: Entering directory `/home/compile/sourceforge/setedit/libmigdb'
>make -C src
>make[2]: Entering directory `/home/compile/sourceforge/setedit/libmigdb/src'
>
>colorgcc -O2 -Wall -gstabs+3 -I.   -c connect.c -o connect.o
>connect.c: In function `mi_get_response_blk':
>connect.c:278: storage size of `timeout' isn't known
>connect.c:278: warning: unused variable `timeout'
>  
>

Looks like it needs:

#include <sys/time.h>

Add it in line 34 of connect.c, it should fix the problem. Lamentably 
newer versions of glibc silently pull a lot of headers, I found it when 
compiled the code for BSD systems. The funny thing is that it also 
compiled for BSD ;-)

Gruesse, SET

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