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Re: Story about compiling MidNight Commander 4.1.9


It appears that your configure script contains the \r\n problem.

Get rid of the \r and the configure script will then work.

If your sources have the \r then they will need to be removed also.

How did you unarchive the files?

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>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:47:01 +0200
>From: Andrew Lipnitsky <ert@cit.org.by>
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: Story about compiling MidNight Commander 4.1.9
>
>Hi !!!
>
>I have gnuwin32 b18 with coolview on WindowsNT 4.0 SP3.
>(of course text=binary)
>
>I have downloaded and installed ncurses-1.9.9e.
>So, the next step is mc-4.1.9.
>
>I am trying : ./configure --program-suffix=.exe
>
>The first problem is that configure can not find some functions.
>
>---------- snipped --- from -----config.log----------------------
>
>gcc -o conftest -g -O conftest.c -lsocket
>C:\TEMP\cc0022271.o: In function `t':
>/usr/src/mc-4.1.9/configure:4513: undefined reference to `socket'
>gcc -o conftest -g -O conftest.c
>C:\TEMP\cc0022471.o: In function `t':
>/usr/src/mc-4.1.9/configure:5118: undefined reference to `socket'
>gcc -o conftest -g -O conftest.c -lbsd
>/gxx/H-i386-cygwin32/lib/gcc-lib/i386-cygwin32/cygnus-2.7.2-970404/../../../../i386-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe:
>cannot open -lbsd: No such file or directory
>gcc -o conftest -g -O conftest.c -linet
>/gxx/H-i386-cygwin32/lib/gcc-lib/i386-cygwin32/cygnus-2.7.2-970404/../../../../i386-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe:
>cannot open -linet: No such file or directory
>gcc -o conftest -g -O conftest.c
>C:\TEMP\cc0022881.o: In function `t':
>/usr/src/mc-4.1.9/configure:5210: undefined reference to 
`gethostbyname'
>
>gcc -o conftest -g -O conftest.c
>C:\TEMP\cc0023131.o: In function `t':
>/usr/src/mc-4.1.9/configure:5301: undefined reference to `socketpair'
>
>------------------------------------
>
>The same problem was cropped up when I am trying to run
>configure script with omniBroker-2.0.2 . In the last case
>this was fatal error.
>I guessed that is due to ld  think 'char gethostbyname();' (see
>configure output below) and 'struct hostent * PASCAL 
gethostbyname(const
>char * name);' ( from Sockets.h -file) are different functions?
>Am I right?
>
>
>---- snipped from omniBroker config.log --------
>
>configure: failed program was:
>#line 2948 "configure"
>#include "confdefs.h"
>/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
>#ifdef __cplusplus
>extern "C"
>#endif
>/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
>    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
>char gethostbyname();
>
>int main() {
>gethostbyname()
>; return 0; }
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
>How I can avoid this problem?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Andrew Lipnitsky.
>
>
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