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Re: scsh/Linux build problems.

To: shivers@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: scsh/Linux build problems.
From: friedman@splode.com (Noah Friedman)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:09:12 -0600
Cc: scsh-bugs@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Reply-to: friedman@splode.com
>   Other than having a shortage of disk space for heap images containing extra
>   debugging symbols (for which there is a fairly cheap solution these days),
>   were there any other specific problems anyone had building scsh under linux?
>
>Well, twice in the last two weeks I've heard from Linux users who were
>trying to build scsh with a corrupted make(1) program. I don't know how
>make got borked, or if it's a common failure mode, but it was a striking
>coincidence. The sympton was the same in both cases: make wouldn't recognise
>the existence of the Makefile. And it prevented you from using make to build
>*any* software system, not just scsh, of course.
>    -Olin

I wonder if those people forgot to run configure, or configure couldn't
write the makefile successfully because of some other problem.
Some versions of GNU sed are hosed, but 2.05 (which is the one I'm using)
is ok.

If either of the people who reported this problem see my message, would you
please do the following?

        1) run "sh -x configure" in the scsh sources and send me the entire
           output.  If you're using a bourne shell to begin with, you can do

                   sh -x configure > configure.output 2>&1

           If you're using csh, do

                   sh -x configure >& configure.out

           Mail me the configure.out file.

        2) Mail me the file `config.log' created from running configure.

        3) Run "sed --version" and tell me which version it reports.

        4) Run "make --version" and tell me which version it reports.

Thanks.

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