Re: [Nano-devel] unable to install - nano-2.7.4.tar.gz in solaris 11.3

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hello John,

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2017, at 12:04, Roselin John (UK) wrote:
> Sorry , your mail was in spam folder.. got it now..
> 
> After several attempts I am able to install the version nano-2.7.4 in other 
> servers as well
> 
> Below are the steps followed to complete the installation 
> 
> 1.    In Solaris 11.3 , the ncurses.h file is a link file of curses.h
>       lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Nov 22 15:12 
> /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h -> curses.h
>       -r--r--r--   1 root     bin        80134 Oct  6  2015 
> /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h
> 
> 2.    Then I copied the  curses.h /usr/include
>       cp -p /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h /usr/include/ncurses.h
> 
> 3.    But still the default solaris make command fails 
> 4.    Able to install using /usr/gnu/bin/make ( The attached patch is not 
> required by installing this way )
> 
> GNU nano, version 2.7.4
>  (C) 1999..2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  (C) 2014..2016 the contributors to nano
>  Email: address@hidden    Web: https://nano-editor.org/
>  Compiled options: --disable-libmagic --disable-utf8
> 
> Let me know if you need any other information

Okay.  So, if I understand correctly, all that is required to make a
recent nano compile on Solaris is to copy curses.h one directory up,
/and/ to use GNU make?

To verify, if you now delete that copied /usr/include/ncurses.h
again, and run ./configure && make clean all in the nano-2.7.4
directory, the build fails again?

Also, did you try compiling 2.6.1?  Did it succeed or fail?

Benno

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