Re: [vile] Is the 'vileserv' server still available?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 05:33:27AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:20:11AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I used to use vileserv many moons ago when I developed C on Sun
> > workstations.  I fact it was the reason I originally started using vile
> > because it offered a way to continue using vi syntax while emulting the
> > EMACS server mode.
> > 
> > I now have a need (well, a "it would be nice if") for something similar
> > on Linux, so, the question - can I build vileserv on Linux (Ubuntu)?
> 
> It should work (I haven't paid much attention to it, but don't think
> I've broken it).
> 
> At the moment I'm working on vile,
> so I can pay attention if there's breakage :-)
> 
I've just realised that what I need to do is to add "--with-perl" when I
run ./configure to build.  (I use the Motif widgets so I have to build
my own).

The trouble is that I get an error from  ./configure :-

    checking if you want to use perl as an extension language... yes
    checking for perl-5.004... perl
    configure: WARNING: Cannot link with Perl interpreter

So what does that mean?

I do have perl installed:-

    chris$ which perl
    /usr/bin/perl
    chris$ perl --version

    This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for 
x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
    (with 53 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)


-- 
Chris Green