On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:59:04 -0700, David Smith
wrote:

>This appears to be common throughout all the packages. What can
>I do to get around this? Thanks.

Download an already compiled binary instead.

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Bill Marcum wrote in message news:<40f89ad5$1_1@news.iglou.com>...
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.help.]
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:59:04 -0700, David Smith
> wrote:
> > I am running Redhat 9.0. I am trying to install the FTE text editor.
> > This package resides at sourceforge.net. I have downloaded
> > packages fte-0.49.13-4.src.rpm, fte-0.49.13-4.src.tar.gz, and
> > fte-20020324-src.zip. All of them seem to suffer from the same problem,
> > namely, within the Makefile, there is "make unix". However, I do not
> > see "unix" anywhere within the Makefile, which is causing the install to
> > abend. This appears to be common throughout all the packages. What can
> > I do to get around this? Thanks.
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install

Sorry, but no dice. First, there is no "configure" file once I have
untarred. So I simply tried "make" first, and then "make install".
No dice. I get the following:

sed < fte.in >fte \
-e "s|@@CONFIGDIR@@|/usr/local/lib/fte/config|g" \
-e "s|@@BINDIR@@|/usr/local/bin|g"
chmod a+x fte
(cd src ; make unix)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/david/src'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `unix'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

If I try "make install", I get basically the same thing:

[root@localhost david]# make install
(cd src ; make unix)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/david/src'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `unix'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2.

It is interesting that according to the documentation, there is a file
of installation instructions, but that file is in fact not there.

Bill Marcum wrote in message
news:<40f89ad5$1_1@news.iglou.com>...
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.help.]
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:59:04 -0700, David Smith
> wrote:
> > I am running Redhat 9.0. I am trying to install the FTE text editor.
> > This package resides at sourceforge.net. I have downloaded
> > packages fte-0.49.13-4.src.rpm, fte-0.49.13-4.src.tar.gz, and
> > fte-20020324-src.zip. All of them seem to suffer from the same problem,
> > namely, within the Makefile, there is "make unix". However, I do not
> > see "unix" anywhere within the Makefile, which is causing the install to
> > abend. This appears to be common throughout all the packages. What can
> > I do to get around this? Thanks.
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install

Sorry, but no dice. First, there is no "configure" file once I have
untarred. So I simply tried "make" first, and then "make install".
No dice. I get the following:

sed < fte.in >fte \
-e "s|@@CONFIGDIR@@|/usr/local/lib/fte/config|g" \
-e "s|@@BINDIR@@|/usr/local/bin|g"
chmod a+x fte
(cd src ; make unix)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/david/src'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `unix'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

If I try "make install", I get basically the same thing:

[root@localhost david]# make install
(cd src ; make unix)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/david/src'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `unix'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2.

It is interesting that according to the documentation, there is a file
of installation instructions, but that file is in fact not there.



As a follow up to the above, I went to fte.sourceforge.net, and
downloaded fte-20020324-common.zip and fte-20020324-src.zip. All
compiled nicely except at the very end. For those interested. I got the
following error messages:

con_slang.cpp:249: cannot convert `short unsigned int*' to
`SLsmg_Char_Type*'
for argument `1' to `unsigned int SLsmg_read_raw(SLsmg_Char_Type*,
unsigned
int)'
con_slang.cpp: In function `int ConPutBoxRaw(int, int, int, int, short
unsigned
int*)':
con_slang.cpp:371: cannot convert `short unsigned int*' to
`SLsmg_Char_Type*'
for argument `1' to `unsigned int SLsmg_write_raw(SLsmg_Char_Type*,
unsigned
int)'
con_slang.cpp: In function `int ConGetBox(int, int, int, int, TCell*)':
con_slang.cpp:389: cannot convert `TCell*' to `SLsmg_Char_Type*' for
argument `
1' to `unsigned int SLsmg_read_raw(SLsmg_Char_Type*, unsigned int)'
con_slang.cpp: In function `int ConGetBoxRaw(int, int, int, int, short
unsigned
int*)':
con_slang.cpp:412: cannot convert `short unsigned int*' to
`SLsmg_Char_Type*'
for argument `1' to `unsigned int SLsmg_read_raw(SLsmg_Char_Type*,
unsigned
int)'

If anyone is interested in figuring out what definitions I need to
change where, I (and others who want to use FTE) would be most grateful.
My hope is that it is not too difficult. Sad to say, my expertise is
so lacking that I don't even know where to look to make the corrections.
I tried, but no seagar.