Re: [vile] Build error, vile 9.5o on Linux

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

> This won't be of any help, but the only thing I've managed to build
> under Linux was xvile. Building vile always fails for some unexplained
> reasons (missing curses libraries, etc).

hmm (I don't have problems finding curses libraries - but I'm biased).
Offhand, the only real build-problems I've had are

        a) some very old Linux's (I have Slackware 3.6 on an old machine)
           have broken locale support (dumps core).
        b) some very old copies of flex were bundled with Tru64 4.0,
           and I have to override the build with a good copy of flex.

The lex-filt.l won't build with lex (just flex), so I special-cased that, 
rather than spend two weeks making a C-implementation of it to save 150kb 
of executable size.

Otherwise, the filters work with lex (within lex's limits on buffer size).

Obviously I haven't tested the configure script with missing tools that
much...

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