Re: Newbie link problem: Error 1
Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Michael Bienia wrote: > 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) as a rule, when I'm looking at a package, I + first look to see if it has a configure script (if not, look for a "Makefile", and do a "make -n", though the last one of those I looked at was junk - "make -n" started doing the configure & compile ;-) + take a look at the head of that to see if it has been generated by autoconf. If so, do "./configure --help" to see what it might allow. (If it's not that simple - handcrafted configure scripts, have to _read_ the documentation first). + try a "./configure". If there are no warnings, etc., + try a "make -n". Look at the warnings, etc. A few packages build things that are needed to complete the "make -n". + If no problem to that point, do a "make". In all cases, when something unexpected shows up, the README, INSTALL and similarly-named files are the place to go. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net