Re: Newbie link problem: Error 1

On 2003-11-22 03:52:20 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> From: "Urs Janßen" <[email protected]>
> > you don't have a screen library (i.e. ncurses (you also need
> > the related headers, not only the library)) installed. again
> > the configure script told you that. what is so difficult to
> > look at the warnings issued by configure and fix things
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > before trying to compile the software?
> 
> "so difficult"???
> 
> I *did* look at the warnings, as you can see from the fact that I pasted
> them into my message.  I could have pasted *all* of the output, you
> know.  I did select only the part that appeared relevant.

Where did you pasted warnings from configure? I can only see warnings
from your make run.

> It should be obvious that I did not understand well enough what I was
> looking at, *let alone how to fix it*, else I would not have asked.  Not
> everyone has years of expertise at running builds.

Why didn't you take a precompiled version for cygwin?
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/tin/ lists 1.6.1 as available
(which isn't the latest version but much more recent than 1.5.8)
 
> I am quite sure that I said I'm a newbie.  What you apparently consider
> to be so obvious, might as well be Swahili to me.  I have no idea what a
> screen library is.  I have never heard of ncurses.  I have not the
> slightest clue what kind of reference to '_tgetent' it might possibly be
> expecting.  I can look these things up now that I feel like an idiot,
> but I had hoped for a useful response here first.

If you had read README.WIN (I don't know if this file was already
included in 1.5.8) you would've noticed that you need ncurses to compile
tin (precompiled version of ncurses exists)

Michael