| 1 | -- $Id: README.emx,v 1.7 2005/08/27 17:04:26 tom Exp $
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| 2 | -- Author: Thomas Dickey
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| 3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 4 |
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| 5 | You can build ncurses on OS/2 in the EMX environment. But you must build and
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| 6 | acquire tools. Not all of the tools distributed with EMX work properly, and
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| 7 | some additional ones are required.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | First, the configure script distributed with ncurses will not run as-is in EMX.
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| 10 | You can generate a new one if you have autoconf built for EMX. You will need
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| 11 | the EMX development tools, of course. Get these programs to start:
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| 12 |
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| 13 | GNU m4 program (version 1.4)
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| 14 | GNU autoconf (version 2.13).
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| 15 | GNU patch (version 2.5)
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| 16 |
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| 17 | Apply the autoconf patches from
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| 18 |
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| 19 | http://invisible-island.net/autoconf
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| 20 | ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf
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| 21 |
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| 22 | These are ordered by date:
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| 24 | autoconf-2.13-20030927.patch.gz
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| 25 | autoconf-2.13-20030927-emx.patch.gz
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| 26 |
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| 27 | I built my development environment for ncurses using EMX 0.9c at the end of
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| 28 | 1997. Much of the EMX patch for autoconf was done originally by J.J.G.Ripoll,
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| 29 | using a similar environment (he prefers using the 'ash' shell). Newer versions
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| 30 | may fix these problems:
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| 31 |
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| 32 | + The pdksh program distributed at Hobbes and Leo (with a 1996 date) is
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| 33 | defective. It does not process "here documents" correctly (which
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| 34 | renders it useless for running the autoconf script). I built my own
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| 35 | copy of pdksh 5.2.13, which does have the bug corrected (documented
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| 36 | in the change log for pdksh).
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| 37 |
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| 38 | + I also built from sources (because the distributed binaries did not
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| 39 | work) the cmp, diff programs.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Other required utilities such as ar, cat, chmod, cp, gawk, grep, mv,
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| 42 | ls, rm, mkdir, sed, sort and tr worked.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | Once you have autoconf patched and installed, run 'autoconf' from the top-level
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| 45 | directory of ncurses to generate the EMX-specific configure script.
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