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Re: pinfo configure problem
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 07:49:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: pinfo configure problem
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- References: <05u3n9l6l8pgdeuidskcplb1930mmjtu05 at 4ax dot com> <20140513110518 dot GN2436 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
> On May 13 06:55, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > I'm trying to build pinfo 0.6.10 in 64-bit. The configure script halts,
> > claiming "curses is not usable". The command that fails is:
> >
> > gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib -lncursesw
> > conftest.c
> >
> > and this fails because the order of the arguments is wrong. The command
> > should be
> >
> > gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -I/usr/include conftest.c -L/usr/lib
> > -lncursesw
> >
> > and that succeeds. So my question is really an autoconf question: How
> > can I tell autoconf to fix the order of the compiler arguments?
> >
> > My autoconf knowledge is pretty thin I'm afraid. I can provide the
> > configure.ac script if that would be helpful. The source is old - I
> > think the last real update was in 2007, with a small update posted in
> > 2010.
>
> Doesn't calling `autoreconf' fix this problem? If so, if you use
> cygport, the default build strategy contains the autoreconf step.
> If you defin your own build function, call cygautoreconf as first
> step after `cd ${B}'.
No, unfortunately it doesn't. I ran 'autoreconf -i' first.
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