From: rkitover AT MAIL1 DOT ANDREW DOT CMU DOT EDU (Rafael Kitover) Subject: ncurses 4.1 on b19 for win95 6 Mar 1998 22:18:51 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com My apologies if this thing got sent twice, first time it didn't seem to go through and I didn't get a bounce message or anything so sending it again... Here's my experience so far in trying to compile ncurses 4.1 on win95 (OSR1, on a real old and real slow 486 :P) using b19: As was described earlier, configure will sometimes give you the "blue screen of death" somewhere in the middle, Mikey's .bashrc code solved that problem and allowed me to run configure until I got to a "real" problem. I also copied bash.exe to /bin/sh as was suggested for ncurses to compile. these were the suggested .bashrc lines for reference: ----------------- unset CYGROOT WINBOOTDIR WINDIR WINPMT BLASTER CMDLINE unset PROMPT QBACKUP SYMANTEC TEMP CMDLINE ISP16 unset COPYCMD DIRCMD E2CWD HLP NU PKUNZIP CONFIG export -nf dlow tlow tup which export -n TZ CVSROOT EDITOR LESSCHARSET PS1 PS2 export -n TMP TERMINFO LS_COLORS C32PATH HISTCONTROL HOSTTYPE export -n IGNOREEOF SHELLOPTS SHLVL MACHTYPE HOSTNAME OSTYPE trap '' 5 set +a #do not export variables in subshells ----------------- Now...before the latest coolview, I used the one before (which only had fdopen.diff) with these results: ../configure ..... a bunch of stuff ..... checking for size of c++ bool... ../configure: test: =: unary operator expected updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status (C:\BIN\SH.EXE 1065) wait_sig: WFM0 failed, error=6 Using the newest coolview, all was the same except the error was something like this: DUP ...ERROR 6!! Sorry, should have written it down. Also looking through the config.log I found some another interesting tidbit which did not show up on the screen when configure was running: .... .... configure:3266: checking if data-only library module links configure:3276: gcc -c -g conftest.c 1>&5 (C:\CYGNUS\B19\H-I386-CYGWIN32\BIN\AR.EXE 1104) block_sig_dispatch: WFSO(sig_dispatch<0x10>) failed, error = 6 configure:3295: gcc -c -g conftest.c 1>&5 (C:\CYGNUS\B19\H-I386-CYGWIN32\BIN\AR.EXE 1114) block_sig_dispatch: WFSO(sig_dispatch<0x10>) failed, error = 6 .... .... Hope that helps, I'll run the whole thing with STRACE if anyone wants... In the meantime, anyone know any sites with binaries/headers of ports to cygwin32? Like ncurses etc. Thanks, Raf - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".