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| -- $Id: README.emx,v 1.8 2006/04/22 22:19:37 tom Exp $ |
| -- Author: Thomas Dickey |
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| You can build ncurses on OS/2 in the EMX environment. But you must build and |
| acquire tools. Not all of the tools distributed with EMX work properly, and |
| some additional ones are required. |
| |
| First, the configure script distributed with ncurses will not run as-is in EMX. |
| You can generate a new one if you have autoconf built for EMX. You will need |
| the EMX development tools, of course. Get these programs to start: |
| |
| GNU m4 program (version 1.4) |
| GNU autoconf (version 2.13). |
| GNU patch (version 2.5) |
| |
| Apply the autoconf patches from |
| |
| http://invisible-island.net/autoconf |
| ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf |
| |
| These are ordered by date: |
| |
| autoconf-2.13-20030927.patch.gz |
| autoconf-2.13-20030927-emx.patch.gz |
| |
| I built my development environment for ncurses using EMX 0.9c at the end of |
| 1997. Much of the EMX patch for autoconf was done originally by J.J.G.Ripoll, |
| using a similar environment (he prefers using the 'ash' shell). Newer versions |
| may fix these problems: |
| |
| + The pdksh program distributed at Hobbes and Leo (with a 1996 date) is |
| defective. It does not process "here documents" correctly (which |
| renders it useless for running the autoconf script). I built my own |
| copy of pdksh 5.2.13, which does have the bug corrected (documented |
| in the change log for pdksh). |
| |
| + I also built from sources (because the distributed binaries did not |
| work) the cmp, diff programs. |
| |
| Other required utilities such as ar, cat, chmod, cp, gawk, grep, mv, |
| ls, rm, mkdir, sed, sort and tr worked. |
| |
| Once you have autoconf patched and installed, run 'autoconf' from the top-level |
| directory of ncurses to generate the EMX-specific configure script. |
