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On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 09:54:46PM -0500, Michael C. Polinske wrote:
> I am a brand new user of gnu-win32 and very new to C/C++.
>
> What I want to do is build the new beta version of NcFTP 3.0 beta 12, unfortunately I haven't found any Win32 binaries for it yet.
>
> I downloaded the cdk.exe from ftp.cygnus.com and installed it on my system without any problems.
>
> But now I'm trying to build the ncurses and readline for NcFTP.
> Here is what happens when I type the following: sh ./configure -target=i586-pc-cygwin32
>
>
> loading cache ./config.cache
> Configuring NCURSES 4.2 ABI 4 (Sun Jun 7 21:21:39 1998)
> configure: error: can not run ./config.sub
>
> If I type in: sh ./config.sub i586
> It returns
> i586-pc-none
>
> So, I'm assuming config.sub is working.
>
> Are there any books available about gnu-win32 that can help me out with problems like this?
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> I've also tried to run the configure script with readline but I get the message that it can't run ./support/config.sub.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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