----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Fulgham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frederico S. Mu�oz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:37 PM Subject: RE: Trying to compile
> > The first victim was tree, that vital component of every > > system; I got the src deb, made a dpkg-source -x ***.dsc > > (I had the diff and the tar.gz) and it expanded nicely; > > I then made a simple configure && make; there were > > issued with MAXPATHLEN - I red about that in the Debian > > GNU/Hurd page; seing this, I made such a brutish hack that > > I won't even sy it in public; anyway, ir compiled and it worked. > > > Great. I think Neal may have come up with a more permanent > solution, but perhaps this was just for one package. Well, I was happy to see it work, but there must be a real solution (well, since we are on a private mailing list I will share my shameful hack: I changed every ocurrence of MAXPATHLEN with 30!!!!) > > > After that I had a go with epic, same process, same > > MAXPATHLEN error, same brutish hack, but this time it gave > > a linker error, apparently all the function in term.o that > > are supported by a term lib (neither termcap or > > terminfo were detected during configure) fail to link. > > > It sounds like you don't have development libraries installed > for these packages. Damn, you are prolly right, IIRC I didn't dl most of the development libs! Since I was trying to get the system to install I just installed the minimum binaries; this was a dumb question, I'll get right back to it after I clear that up! (...) > It sounds like you are missing the development pieces of > termcap/terminfo. Check the "devel" directory at ftp.debian.org > under the Hurd and see if you find what you need. ACK Thanks, Frederico S. Mu�oz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
