Re: [vile] Build error, vile 9.5o on Linux

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:08:57 +0000
Chris G <address@hidden> wrote:

> My hosting provider is moving our shell accounts from a FreeBSD system
> to a Linux system.
> 
> I can't get vile to build on the Linux system.  A default ./configure
> and then make results in:-
> 
>     gcc -g -O2   -o vile-tags-filt tagsfilt.o filterio.o filters.o
>     echo "#include <flt_defs.h>" > ada-filt.c
>     : -t ada-filt.l >> ada-filt.c
>     gcc -c -I. -I.. -I../filters -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -D_GNU_SOURCE -g
>     -O2  ada-filt.c
>     rm -f ada-filt.c
>     gcc -g -O2   -o vile-ada-filt ada-filt.o filterio.o filters.o 
>     filterio.o: In function `flt_name':
>     /home/isbd/build/vile-9.5/filters/filterio.c:111: undefined reference to 
> `filter_def'
>     filterio.o: In function `ProcessArgs':
>     /home/isbd/build/vile-9.5/filters/filterio.c:67: undefined reference to 
> `filter_def'
>     filterio.o: In function `main':
>     /home/isbd/build/vile-9.5/filters/filterio.c:317: undefined reference to 
> `filter_def'
>     /home/isbd/build/vile-9.5/filters/filterio.c:321: undefined reference to 
> `filter_def'
>     /home/isbd/build/vile-9.5/filters/filterio.c:327: undefined reference to 
> `filter_def'
>     filterio.o:/home/isbd/build/vile-9.5/filters/filterio.c:334: more 
> undefined references to `filter_def' follow
>     collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>     make[1]: *** [vile-ada-filt] Error 1
>     make[1]: Leaving directory `/home6/isbd/build/vile-9.5/filters'
>     make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Is there some vital library/headers missing?
> 

This won't be of any help, but the only thing I've managed to build
under Linux was xvile. Building vile always fails for some unexplained
reasons (missing curses libraries, etc).

Linux sux (this has nothing to do with the fact that I maintain the port under
FreeBSD :)! Too bad your provider doesn't have a clue.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn