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

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 06:53:47AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:22:30AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:59:22AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > 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?
> > > 
> > It's OK, I found what I need, I have to install libperl-dev, reasonable
> > I suppose!
> 
> reasonable enough.  The terminal-emulator script needs (for Debian)
> something called libio-pty-perl; but both of those have different
> names in Fedora, etc.  You need the libperl-dev to compile and
> link vile, so it's easy to check for.
> 
It compiles and links OK without libperl-dev even with the --with-perl
option, the only symptom (apart from lack of perl support of course) is
the warning during ./configure which flashes past pretty quickly.

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Chris Green