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

[Chris G]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 08:46:16AM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >
> >> 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).
> >
> > hmm (I don't have problems finding curses libraries - but I'm biased).
> > Offhand, the only real build-problems I've had are
> >
> >     a) some very old Linux's (I have Slackware 3.6 on an old machine)
> >        have broken locale support (dumps core).
> >     b) some very old copies of flex were bundled with Tru64 4.0,
> >        and I have to override the build with a good copy of flex.
> >
> > The lex-filt.l won't build with lex (just flex), so I special-cased that, 
> > rather than spend two weeks making a C-implementation of it to save 150kb 
> > of executable size.
> >
> > Otherwise, the filters work with lex (within lex's limits on buffer size).
> >
> > Obviously I haven't tested the configure script with missing tools that
> > much...
> >
> It could well be that the system in question simply doesn't have lex
> or flex, it appears to be a custom built system, I'll ask.
> 
That was the problem, flex/lex installed and vile builds OK.

Thanks all.

-- 
Chris Green