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-- $Id: README.emx,v 1.4 2000/09/16 19:28:28 tom Exp $
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-- Author: Thomas Dickey
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You can build ncurses on OS/2 in the EMX environment. But you must build and
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acquire tools. Not all of the tools distributed with EMX work properly, and
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some additional ones are required.
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First, the configure script distributed with ncurses will not run as-is in EMX.
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You can generate a new one if you have autoconf built for EMX. You will need
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the EMX development tools, of course. Get these programs to start:
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GNU m4 program (version 1.4)
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GNU autoconf (version 2.13).
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GNU patch (version 2.5)
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Apply the autoconf patches from
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http://dickey.his.com/autoconf
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ftp://dickey.his.com/autoconf
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These are ordered by date:
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autoconf-2.13-20000819.patch.gz
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autoconf-2.13-20000819-emx.patch.gz
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I built my development environment for ncurses using EMX 0.9c at the end of
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1997. Much of the EMX patch for autoconf was done originally by J.J.G.Ripoll,
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using a similar environment (he prefers using the 'ash' shell). Newer versions
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may fix these problems:
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+ The pdksh program distributed at Hobbes and Leo (with a 1996 date) is
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defective. It does not process "here documents" correctly (which
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renders it useless for running the autoconf script). I built my own
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copy of pdksh 5.2.13, which does have the bug corrected (documented
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in the change log for pdksh).
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+ I also built from sources (because the distributed binaries did not
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work) the cmp, diff programs.
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Other required utilities such as ar, cat, chmod, cp, gawk, grep, mv,
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ls, rm, mkdir, sed, sort and tr worked.
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Once you have autoconf patched and installed, run 'autoconf' from the top-level
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directory of ncurses to generate the EMX-specific configure script.
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