Re: configure panic

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:00:29PM -0500, Stephen Dickey wrote: > From: Stephen Dickey <stephendickey(a)finchcms.edu&gt; > Subject: configure panic > To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org > > I am having a problem similar to something I saw on this > list. > > *** PANIC *** The C compiler can no longer build working executables. > *** PANIC *** Please examine the tail of config.log for runtime errors. > *** PANIC *** The most likely reason for this problem is that configure > *** PANIC *** links with shared libraries, but those libraries cannot be > *** PANIC *** found at run time. > *** PANIC *** > *** PANIC *** On a Linux system, edit /etc/ld.so.conf and re-run ldconfig. > *** PANIC *** On other systems, try telling configure where to find the > *** PANIC *** shared libraries using the --site-runtime-libraries option > *** PANIC *** > *** PANIC *** Another way to shoot yourself in the foot is to specify > *** PANIC *** --with-FEATURE when FEATURE is not actually installed > *** PANIC *** on your system. Don't do that. > > this is on a linux from scratch system which deffinately has ncurses > and does not have termcap. I'm not sure when this broke but everything was > building fine a couple of weeks ago. > > here is what seems to be the relevant portion of config.log: > > > configure:13267: checking for TTY-related features > configure:13283: checking for tgetent in -lncurses > configure:13299: gcc -o conftest -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -I/usr/X11R6/include > -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.c -lncurses -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lSM > -lICE -lm -lshell32 -lgdi32 -luser32 -lcomdlg32 -lcomctl32 -lwinspool -lgcc > -lc -lgcc /usr/lib/crtn.o 1>&5 > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwinspool Here's the problem ^^^^^^^^^^^, it cannot find winspool so it assumes you don't have ncurses... Definitely a win32 type problem so I can't offer much else. <SNIP long configure.log> Gordon Sadler