I am trying to install ncurses5.6 into my /home/phototourwebsites. The process looks
pretty straight forward, however after successfully running the following configure
command:
I then have problems running make. Here is the output from make:
$ make
cd man && make DESTDIR="" all
make: Entering directory `/usr/home/phototourwebsites/ncurses-5.6/man'
sh ./MKterminfo.sh ./terminfo.head ./../include/Caps ./terminfo.tail >terminfo.5
make: Leaving directory `/usr/home/phototourwebsites/ncurses-5.6/man'
cd include && make DESTDIR="" all
make: Entering directory `/usr/home/phototourwebsites/ncurses-5.6/include'
cat curses.head >curses.h
AWK=gawk sh ./MKkey_defs.sh ./Caps >>curses.h
sh -c 'if test "chtype" = "cchar_t" ; then cat ./curses.wide >>curses.h ; fi'
cat ./curses.tail >>curses.h
sh ./MKhashsize.sh ./Caps >hashsize.h
AWK=gawk sh ./MKncurses_def.sh ./ncurses_defs >ncurses_def.h
AWK=gawk sh ./MKparametrized.sh ./Caps >parametrized.h
gawk -f MKterm.h.awk ./Caps > term.h
sh ./edit_cfg.sh ../include/ncurses_cfg.h term.h
** edit: HAVE_TCGETATTR 1
** edit: HAVE_TERMIOS_H 1
** edit: HAVE_TERMIO_H 0
** edit: BROKEN_LINKER 0
make: Leaving directory `/usr/home/phototourwebsites/ncurses-5.6/include'
cd ncurses && make DESTDIR="" all
make: Entering directory `/usr/home/phototourwebsites/ncurses-5.6/ncurses'
gawk -f ./tinfo/MKnames.awk ./../include/Caps
cat namehdr boolnames boolfnames numnames numfnames strnames strfnames nameftr
>names.c
cat namehdr boolcodes numcodes strcodes codeftr >codes.c
rm -f namehdr nameftr codeftr boolnames boolfnames boolcodes numnames numfnames
numcodes strnames strfnames strcodes
made codes.c
gcc -o make_hash -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -I./../include -I../include
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -I. -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG
-I/home/phototourwebsites/include -O2 -DMAIN_PROGRAM ./tinfo/comp_hash.c
In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
from ../ncurses/curses.priv.h:84,
from ./tinfo/comp_hash.c:42:
/usr/include/bits/errno.h:25:26: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:307,
from ../ncurses/curses.priv.h:115,
from ./tinfo/comp_hash.c:42:
/usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28:29: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or directory
make Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/usr/home/phototourwebsites/ncurses-5.6/ncurses'
make: *** Error 2
ebraden,
You won't be able to install directly to /usr/include or any of it's subdirectories. Those directories are root-owned, making them only writable by WestHost systems administrators.
However, you should still be able to install your app. To do so, just update the make or config file to install to a directory that is not root owned, such as /usr/local.
I dont see anywhere obvious in the Makefile to set this and there is no file called config in the ncurses5.6 root folder. I tried setting the DESTDIR variable in the Makefile to /usr/local but still get the same result.
What exactly must I do in the Makefile?
Thanks for your help.
I dont see anywhere obvious in the Makefile to set this and there is no file called config in the ncurses5.6 root folder. I tried setting the DESTDIR variable in the Makefile to /usr/local but still get the same result.
What exactly must I do in the Makefile?
Thanks for your help.
Nothing ;) You need to run ./configure with a different --prefix.
I managed to install ncurses (with a little work around). See this post (http://www.rollingr.net/wordpress/2006/11/10/installing-python/)
PS I never build in /usr/local because of access troubles. I use /usr/mylocal
still not working i have tried using both /home/phototourwebsites and /usr/mylocal as a prefix. and still getting the same exact error when running Make.
Isnt the "work around" that you reference for linking to ncurses during the python build. I am not getting that far....Make fails.
Did you try just ./configure --prefix=/usr/mylocal ? Forget the other parameters for now; you only need to use them if that does not work. Don't forget that you will have to to create /usr/mylocal manually first.
I suspect that your problem may be the use of --with-shared and --with-normal. However, without looking at the code, I cannot tell if these are mutually exclusive.
Fine-Tuning Your Configuration:
--disable-overwrite leave out the link to -lcurses
OK ... problem was solved by uninstalling Gnu compiler in manager/site applications and then re-installing it. I had installed other development packages like ruby, mod perl, etc so I suspect that one of these other package installations broke the gnu compiling environment. :)