Re: [help-texinfo] Newbie with terminal.c errors

[tomas]

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:08:11PM -0800, gibsogu wrote:
> 
> I am new to Linux and therefore prone to many errors / mistakes.  I am
> currently trying to build a Kernel for a AVR32 processor and during that
> task found I need to have texinfo on my system.

By "your system" you mean the Ubuntu installation on VM? (I guess "yes")

>                                                 I did not find a package for
> this task and so proceeded to download and manually install the program. 
> ./configure appeared to work correctly, but make failed.  I get a number of
> messages that indicate the in terminal.c tputs, tgetnum, tgoto, and other
> references are undefined.

You should be able to install texinfo binary (if you have access to a
package repository; that means basically if your Ubuntu installation has
net access). Just issue on the command line on a terminal:

  sudo apt-get install texinfo

should be all.

If you nevertheless prefer to build your package from source yourself,
you need the  so-called "build dependencies". Just issue an

  sudo apt-get install build-dep texinfo

and the package manager fetches and installs whatever is necessary to
build texinfo from sources[1]

But this shouldn't be necessary, since texinfo is an official Ubuntu
package.

If you haven't Net access from your Ubuntu box, you'd have to download
the texinfo package (and its depencencies) and install by hand. Feel
free to ask me if you need assistance.

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[1] Well, there's a little white lie in here: it's whatever is necessary
to build the package from the Ubuntuized source -- but most of the time
that'll work.

Regards
- -- tomás
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