Re: Library linking problem

2003-02-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Mike Castle wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Dr. David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >/conftest: error while loading shared libraries: libgsl.so.0: cannot > >open shared object file: No such file or directory > >configure:4834: $? = 127 > >configure: program exited with status 12

Re: backward compatability of tools

2003-02-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Paul Eggert wrote: > "Support" is a relative term. If you find a new bug in SunOS 4.1.4, > Sun will not fix it for you, even if you have purchased a standard > software maintenance contract from Sun. I don't call that "support", > even if Sun does. > > By my definition, Sun doesn't "support" Su

Re: comma separated lists

2003-02-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruno Haible writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > The difference between space-separated lists and comma-separated lists is > > approximately like writing in C func("arg1 arg2 arg3") rather than > > func(arg1, arg2, arg3). It is not "proper" for the language being used. > > It is a historical mi

Re: Detecting curses...

2003-02-18 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Richard Dawe wrote: > There's an autoconf macro archive here: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/ > > There seems to be a basic curses macro there already: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/mp_with_curses.html it's too naive (alpha quality - o

Re: backward compatability of tools

2003-02-18 Thread Paul Eggert
"Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > although you are saying it is still an operating system supported by > Sun "Support" is a relative term. If you find a new bug in SunOS 4.1.4, Sun will not fix it for you, even if you have purchased a standard software maintenance contract from Su

Re: Detecting curses...

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Dawe
Hello. Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: [snip] > From my understanding, streamlining such platform specifics is one of > the major goals of autoconf, so: is there any chance that there will be > a AC_CHECK_CURSES macro in a future version, which tells all the > important facts about the libcurses it

Detecting curses...

2003-02-18 Thread Hans-Bernhard Broeker
Hello, autoconf team, I maintain a legacy project (the Unix source code browser cscope), which uses curses. Supporting all the different kinds of vendor-supplied and publically available implementations of this has proven to be a source of nightmares. >From my understanding, streamlining such pl

Re: backward compatability of tools

2003-02-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Paul Eggert wrote: > > "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > SunOs 4.1.4 > > Sun has been withdrawing support for that OS. Since September 2000 > Sun has not issued patches for new bugs in that operating system. On > September 30, Sun will further transition SunOS 4.1.4 to "cust