AW: Difficulties compiling hmake / HaXml

[Malcolm Wallace]

> Okay, I tried to ignore the error and went on with "make install"
> (after "./configure" and "make").  However, again an error message
> appears (see above), and there is no .exe output.  What can I do
> about this now?

  * Either try the hack to READLINE="" in lib/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-4.0/config,
    then 'make install';

  * Or try './configure --install' instead of 'make install'.

  * Or, best of all, apply the patch below to the configure script,
    then re-run the whole sequence of ./configure; make; make install.

Regards,
    Malcolm


diff -u -r1.18 configure
--- configure     2001/02/16 16:09:37     1.18
+++ configure     2001/03/28 14:23:57
@@ -247,15 +247,23 @@
   then echo "You gave the following extra build options: $BUILDOPTS"
   fi
 
-  echo -n "Testing for the readline library:           "
-  echo 'main(){;}' >rd.c
-  if ${CC-gcc} -o rd.out rd.c -lreadline >/dev/null 2>&1
-  then echo 'yes (detected)'
-       READLINE="-DUSE_READLINE=1 -lreadline"
-  else echo 'no  (detected)'
-       READLINE=""
-  fi
-  rm -f rd.out rd.c
+  echo -n "Testing for the readline library: "
+  case $OS in
+    CYGWIN*) echo '          cannot use'
+             READLINE="" ;;
+    *)  echo 'main(){;}' >rd.c
+        if ${CC-gcc} -o rd.out rd.c -lreadline >/dev/null 2>&1
+        then echo '          yes (detected)'
+             READLINE="-DUSE_READLINE=1 -lreadline"
+        else if ${CC-gcc} -o rd.out rd.c -lreadline -lncurses >/dev/null 2>&1
+          then echo '          yes (detected)'
+             READLINE="-DUSE_READLINE=1 -lreadline -lncurses"
+          else echo '          no  (detected)'
+             READLINE=""
+          fi
+        fi
+        rm -f rd.c rd.out ;;
+  esac
 
   if [ "$EXE" = "" ]
   then echo "Executables need .exe suffix?               no  (detected)"