Re: Installing on HP UNIX

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Ahmad Attia wrote:

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> Hi Eric,
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> I am trying to install ncurses 5.4 on HP.  I have configured and compiled
> it successfully.  However, when I try to install i get the following
> errors.  My concern is that the configuration should be creating the
> makefiles appropriately for the install command. I have also included the
> install command on HP manual below.
> Can you please tell me if there is a way to have the makefiles modified ,
> instead of me fixing them manually because your makefiles are quite
> complex.
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> cd man && make DESTDIR="" install
> make[1]: Entering directory `/db2/sapdba_project/ncurses-5.4/man'
> sh ./edit_man.sh normal installing /usr/local/man . terminfo.5 ./*.[0-9]*
> installing /usr/local/man/man5/terminfo.5
> install: The -c, -f, -n options each require a directory following!

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The autoconf scripts usually manage to find if the system's install
program works.  But I believe it's fooled if you have a $INSTALL
variable in your environment.  In the config.status file, you should
see a line something like

INSTALL="/usr/sbin/install {options}"

if you change it to

INSTALL="{your-path}/install-sh -c"

that is, {your-path} is the absolute path of the source-directory where
your ncurses build is located, and run
        ./config.status
followed by a make, that should fix it.

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