Re: problem compiling vim70.
Anupam Srivastava wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. Forget that shortcut dirname `locate curses.h` thing. It was just to give the idea to Ajay about how to compile by redefinign CPPFLAGS and LDFALGS. Well, you made it sound like an actual shell script that ought to work. anda=`locate libncurses` export LDFLAGS=-I`dirname $anda` dirname `locate libncurses` dirname: extra operand `/lib/libncurses/so.5.4' Try `dirname --help' for more information 2. Atleast your out put is not 'nothing' :p No, I get several lines of output for each of them, including (IIUC) a number of lines which bear no relation to what should be searched by compile or link IIUC, only one of each should go into CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS 3. Sorry didn't get you. Here is the actual mail from which I got helped: Gary Johnson wrote: I downloaded and installed ncurses under /home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/ncurses-5.4. Here is how I build vim: export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/ncurses-5.4/include/ncurses only one directory, not the directories of everything that locate ncurses.h did output export LDFLAGS=-L/home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/ncurses-5.4/lib only one directory, not the directories of everything that locate libncurses did output ./configure --prefix=/home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/vim-7.0 --with-tlib=ncurses --enable-cscope make make install - -- Anupam Srivastava Scientific Coworker Universität Stuttgart I'm re-adding the vim-dev list to the CC -- I wonder why you removed it. (Disclaimer: I don't know everything about Vim, and I'm not paid to answer queries. I'm just another user like any of them.) Best regards, Tony.
Re: problem compiling vim70.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ajay Gupta wrote: On 10/18/06, Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the messages say that configure is checking for tgetent in termlib, termcap and curses. They say nothing about checking in ncurses. If you want to use ncurses, you have to tell configure that: ./configure --with-tlib=ncurses [other options] As long as you installed ncurses in a standard place, you don't need to say where you put it. Yeah, I tried this too. Since I installed ncurses with Yum, I am assuming that it must be installed in the right place. I get the following error with the above mentioned command: snip checking --with-tlib argument... ncurses checking for linking with ncurses library... configure: error: FAILED /snip It surely looks like libncurses is in the wrong place. Does anyone know what are the exact library files and where they need to be? Here is the uname -a output from my machine: Linux altair 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 23:08:39 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux TIA, Ajay It seems your curses is not installed in the place where VIM is looking for it. May be it is not installed correctly. Have you checked it? Try to do this. locate curses.h (or ncurses.h) locate libncurses (or libcurses) If out of any of this commans is nothing, your installation is faulty. The directory of first output should go into CPPFLAGS and other should go into LDFLAGS like this: anda=`locate curses.h` export CPPFLAGS=-I`dirname $anda` anda=`locate libncurses` export LDFLAGS=-I`dirname $anda` and then do ./configure - -- Anupam Srivastava Scientific Coworker Universität Stuttgart Get my public keys: gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys DF8B2AFE 99F8BB81 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFNiyx7GZ7yN+LKv4RAttzAJoCoMezvH3I+D2JZ8qkRjbAT/lvlQCfb+cV mGKcM4dffyzMCSnX53WZ5C4= =QCIM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: problem compiling vim70.
Anupam Srivastava wrote: [...] (Vim does compile on my system) Try to do this. locate curses.h (or ncurses.h) locate curses.h /usr/include/curses.h /usr/include/curses/curses.h /usr/include/ncurses.h /usr/include/python2.4/py_curses.h /usr/include/slcurses.h locate libncurses (or libcurses) locate libncurses /lib/libncurses.so.5 /lib/libncurses.so.5.4 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a /usr/lib/libncurses++w.a /usr/lib/libncurses.a /usr/lib/libncurses.so /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.2 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5.5 If out of any of this commans is nothing, your installation is faulty. The directory of first output should go into CPPFLAGS and other should go into LDFLAGS IIUC, only one of each should go into CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS like this: anda=`locate curses.h` export CPPFLAGS=-I`dirname $anda` dirname `locate curses.h` dirname: extra operand `/usr/include/curses/curses.h' Try `dirname --help' for more information anda=`locate libncurses` export LDFLAGS=-I`dirname $anda` dirname `locate libncurses` dirname: extra operand `/lib/libncurses/so.5.4' Try `dirname --help' for more information and then do ./configure - -- Anupam Srivastava Scientific Coworker Universität Stuttgart Best regards, Tony.
Re: problem compiling vim70.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Anupam Srivastava wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. Forget that shortcut dirname `locate curses.h` thing. It was just to give the idea to Ajay about how to compile by redefinign CPPFLAGS and LDFALGS. Well, you made it sound like an actual shell script that ought to work. I am a n00b. Bear with me. That script works on my computer! :) anda=`locate libncurses` export LDFLAGS=-I`dirname $anda` dirname `locate libncurses` dirname: extra operand `/lib/libncurses/so.5.4' Try `dirname --help' for more information 2. Atleast your out put is not 'nothing' :p No, I get several lines of output for each of them, including (IIUC) a number of lines which bear no relation to what should be searched by compile or link That is very well explained in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor IIUC, only one of each should go into CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS 3. Sorry didn't get you. Here is the actual mail from which I got helped: Gary Johnson wrote: I downloaded and installed ncurses under /home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/ncurses-5.4. Here is how I build vim: export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/ncurses-5.4/include/ncurses only one directory, not the directories of everything that locate ncurses.h did output export LDFLAGS=-L/home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/ncurses-5.4/lib only one directory, not the directories of everything that locate libncurses did output ./configure --prefix=/home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/vim-7.0 --with-tlib=ncurses --enable-cscope make make install Yeah I know :) I'm re-adding the vim-dev list to the CC -- I wonder why you removed it. (Disclaimer: I don't know everything about Vim, and I'm not paid to answer queries. I'm just another user like any of them.) Best regards, Tony. Yeah I know :) - -- Anupam Srivastava Scientific Coworker Universität Stuttgart Get my public keys: gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys DF8B2AFE 99F8BB81 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFNkeL7GZ7yN+LKv4RAlQVAJ917NEDO244GgQDuQEE10t7nKqwjACdG4QL 7kZoHP2FcRwJuWHmNhKTa5U= =0WmQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: problem compiling vim70.
On 2006-10-16, Ajay Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am trying to compile vim70 on my 'newly installed' fc4 box. But I get the following error: snip checking for stack_t... (cached) yes checking whether stack_t has an ss_base field... no checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library selection checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) yes ncurses library is not usable checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no no terminal library found checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND! You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses. Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib. /snip Anybody has any ideas what I need to do? I tried updating libncurses using 'yum install curses'. Updation completed successfully with the following message: snip Updated: ncurses.i386 0:5.4-19.fc4 Complete! /snip Note that the messages say that configure is checking for tgetent in termlib, termcap and curses. They say nothing about checking in ncurses. If you want to use ncurses, you have to tell configure that: ./configure --with-tlib=ncurses [other options] As long as you installed ncurses in a standard place, you don't need to say where you put it. HTH, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: problem compiling vim70.
A friend had this problem on Ubuntu. I think it turned out that his LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent wasn't pointing to the ncurses library for some reason. On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Ajay Gupta wrote: no terminal library found checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND! You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses. Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib. -- .
problem compiling vim70.
Hello all, I am trying to compile vim70 on my 'newly installed' fc4 box. But I get the following error: snip checking for stack_t... (cached) yes checking whether stack_t has an ss_base field... no checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library selection checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) yes ncurses library is not usable checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no no terminal library found checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND! You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses. Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib. /snip Anybody has any ideas what I need to do? I tried updating libncurses using 'yum install curses'. Updation completed successfully with the following message: snip Updated: ncurses.i386 0:5.4-19.fc4 Complete! /snip TIA, Ajay
Re: problem compiling vim70.
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Ajay Gupta wrote: no terminal library found checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND! You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses. Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib. Anybody has any ideas what I need to do? I tried updating libncurses using 'yum install curses'. You need to install the ncurses-devel package. - Christian -- That must be wonderful. I don't understand it at all. Christian J. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://infynity.spodzone.com/ PGP keys: 0x893B0EAF / 0xFB698360 http://infynity.spodzone.com/pgp
Re: problem compiling vim70.
Thanks. But, even that didnt work! :( snip Updated: ncurses-devel.i386 0:5.4-19.fc4 Complete! /snip Still ./configure gives the same error. snip checking for stack_t... (cached) yes checking whether stack_t has an ss_base field... no checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library selection checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) yes ncurses library is not usable checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no no terminal library found checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND! You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses. Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib. /snip TIA, Ajay On 10/16/06, Christian J. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Ajay Gupta wrote: no terminal library found checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND! You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses. Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib. Anybody has any ideas what I need to do? I tried updating libncurses using 'yum install curses'. You need to install the ncurses-devel package. - Christian -- That must be wonderful. I don't understand it at all. Christian J. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://infynity.spodzone.com/ PGP keys: 0x893B0EAF / 0xFB698360 http://infynity.spodzone.com/pgp
