Re: Missing links in amaya build

Hi,

Probably you should start in your case by launching autoconf.
Have you try it: first go into the main directory Amaya and execute
autoconf for generating a more appropriate file configure?

> Hi all --
> 
> After several minor difficulties in building amaya,
> I have reached something of an impasse.  There are
> three functions or procedures missing in the link
> process:
> 
> regex
> snprintf
> regcmp
> 
> I researched the snprintf function call a bit, and
> found several disparate versions at various places
> with some complaints about incompatibilities and
> incomplete specifications.  Can someone suggest
> which version of snprintf is best used here, and
> how it might be incorporated (I'm new to this kind
> of activity)?  I'm not sure where we were supposed
> to find the two regular expression functions.
> 
> I'm using Solaris 5; I downloaded and built gnu make
> for the purpose of making amaya; during the "make-all"
> process, I used several hacks to get to where I am now.
> 
> My first problem was an odd one -- configure placed the
> file ar at /usr/bin/ar, but it was not there.  I located
> a version of ar in an area of utilities that had been set
> aside and copied it, editing the configure file to agree.
> Is this possibly a problem in the configure script?
> 
> There were many many warnings of the form "such-and-such
> variable may be uninitialized" -- I checked a couple and
> indeed they appear to be legit.
> 
> I had to define 5 "dead characters" at line 950 in
> interface.c -- I have no idea whether this will cause any
> mischief later.
> 
> 			-- Burnie West
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 3 January 2002 05:36:49 UTC