From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: ncurses 28 Dec 1998 15:35:22 GMT Message-ID: <7688fq$aj8$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <001101be3011$97efb940$4f2574c0@PCX.gefen.co.il> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article , Peter Moulder wrote: >Paul Wilson writes: >> The problem with some GNU configure utils is that they pipe their >> commands to /dev/null. Last I tried to create a /dev/null using mknod, I >> couldn't create it with the exact major and minor device numbers, so >> creating /dev/null won't fix the problem. Just edit out the >/dev/null >> from the configure script where configure checks for gcc. > >On b20.0 / NT, /dev/null does work even if ls doesn't see it. > >Try doing `sh -x configure' instead of `./configure', to see what it >is trying to do and why it thinks gcc doesn't work. > >(You might try Paul's suggestion first, though, just to check whether >I'm speaking garbage.) Actually, /dev/null has worked for some time. As noted, you can't do a 'ls -l /dev/null' but we're working on that. -- cgf@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/