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Re: ncurses
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: ncurses
- From: cgf at cygnus dot com (Christopher G. Faylor)
- Date: 28 Dec 1998 15:35:22 GMT
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <001101be3011$97efb940$4f2574c0@PCX.gefen.co.il>, <m2iuey9fl1.fsf.cygnus.gnu-win32@forest.nuthouse.au>
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In article <m2iuey9fl1.fsf.cygnus.gnu-win32@forest.nuthouse.au>,
Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>Paul Wilson <fwibbly@earthlink.net> writes:
>> The problem with some GNU configure utils is that they pipe their
>> commands to /dev/null. Last I tried to create a /dev/null using mknod, I
>> couldn't create it with the exact major and minor device numbers, so
>> creating /dev/null won't fix the problem. Just edit out the >/dev/null
>> from the configure script where configure checks for gcc.
>
>On b20.0 / NT, /dev/null does work even if ls doesn't see it.
>
>Try doing `sh -x configure' instead of `./configure', to see what it
>is trying to do and why it thinks gcc doesn't work.
>
>(You might try Paul's suggestion first, though, just to check whether
>I'm speaking garbage.)
Actually, /dev/null has worked for some time. As noted, you can't do a
'ls -l /dev/null' but we're working on that.
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