[OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling Mosh for OI 151

[Bryan N Iotti]

Also, you might want to use the version of GCC that you find on SFE.

The OI one in /usr/bin/gcc is version 3.4.3, while the one in SFE is 
4.6.2. I have had better luck compiling with the latter as opposed to 
the former.

When you have multiple compilers installed, you can set the one you want 
to use for the project by providing the CC flag to the configure script 
or as an environment variable:

./configure CC="/usr/gcc/4.6/bin/gcc" will set you up to use the SFE 
version of gcc

Otherwise, go to the Oracle website and download the Solaris Studio 
compiler tarfile. It works well, but some software won't compile cleanly 
on it since the source code uses "gcc-isms". When it works it's a 
painless process. Also, the license states that it can be used for free 
for both personal and commercial uses. It also ships with its own IDE, a 
version of NetBeans.

./configure CC="/opt/solarisstudio12.3/bin/cc" will set you up with the 
Oracle compiler.

Again, I hope this helps.

    Bryan
On 05/ 1/12 01:24 AM, James C. McPherson wrote:
> On  1/05/12 09:08 AM, Robbie Crash wrote:
>> Honestly, I think including this, I'm still on single digits with 
>> what I've
>> had to compile from source, and definitely the only thing that I've ever
>> had to figure out, so you not being a professional is still leaps and
>> bounds ahead of me.
>>
>> I'm using gcc installed via "pkg install gcc", which I assume means I'm
>> getting it from OI.
>>
>> I set the two variables as you recommended, with my paths, (export
>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib/amd64/pkgconfig/:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/share/p 
>>
>> kgconfig/" and export
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/:/usr/lib/:/usr/lib/amd64/") and still receive
>> the same error.
>
> ... more below
>
>>>> No package 'ncurses' found
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea what TINFO is, but from googling around, I find it has
>>>> something to do with ncurses as an independent provider for something
>>> (I'm
>>>> terribly helpful, I know). I know ncurses is installed and that other
>>>> programs that are dependent on it work, and there are libs  in
>>> /usr/gnu/lib
>>>> and /usr/gnu/lib/amd64.
>
> ...
>
>>>> But setting either doesn't fix anything. However, this is the first 
>>>> time
>>>> I've run into issues with a configure script not working, so this is
>>>> probably me not actually doing things properly. Specifying my 
>>>> libdir to
>>>> either /usr/gnu/lib or /usr/gnu/lib/amd64 doesn't help either.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any ideas for where to go from here?
>
> You need to verify that the ncurses package is correctly installed,
> and then when running mosh's configure script, ensure that you have
> /usr/gnu/lib (assuming that's where your ncurses libs are) in your
> CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS via something like this:
>
> CFLAGS="-L/usr/gnu/lib" CXXFLAGS="-L/usr/gnu/lib" ; export CFLAGS 
> CXXFLAGS
>
> It's preferable to get gcc to use an rpath rather than forcing
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /usr/gnu/lib, but if that's what it
> takes, that's what it takes.
>
>
> James C. McPherson
> -- 
> Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter
>               http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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