From 7dce90d809b566df1ab6191a2863480bec96e560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Easton Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 14:54:10 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Move COMPILE-PROBLEMS into INSTALL --- COMPILE-PROBLEMS | 11 ----------- INSTALL | 23 +++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 COMPILE-PROBLEMS diff --git a/COMPILE-PROBLEMS b/COMPILE-PROBLEMS deleted file mode 100644 index 8c8e8d4..0000000 --- a/COMPILE-PROBLEMS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -BitchX requires either the terminfo or termcap terminal-handling library. -This is commonly provided by the ncurses library, so if you get the error: - -Cannot find terminfo or termcap - try installing the ncurses-dev / ncurses-devel package. - -..then you should try to find the ncurses development package for your OS. -Some examples of what this package may be called: - -Debian, Ubuntu: libncurses5-dev -Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuSE: ncurses-devel -Cygwin: libncurses-devel diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f4c29cd..1c79f11 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ BitchX is known to compile on the following systems (maybe others as well): Introduction: - Problems may occur during the compilation process of BitchX. If -you do have a problem, please gather as much information about the error + Problems may occur during the compilation process of BitchX. Some common +problems are described below under "Compile Problems". If you do have a +problem you can't resolve, please gather as much information about the error (*FULL* output of "make") and join #BitchX on EFNet, or use the Sourceforge page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitchx/. @@ -82,11 +83,25 @@ are marked with an asterisk, "*") Users without superuser access will typically see a "permission denied" error here if they try to install to the default prefix. +Compile Problems: + + BitchX requires either the terminfo or termcap terminal-handling library. +This is commonly provided by the ncurses package, so if you get the error: + +Cannot find terminfo or termcap - try installing the ncurses-dev / ncurses-devel package. + + ..then you should try to find the ncurses development package for your OS. +Some examples of what this package may be called: + + Debian, Ubuntu: libncurses5-dev + Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuSE: ncurses-devel + Cygwin: libncurses-devel + -- Last Updated: caf -caf@guarana.org -December 31st, 2012 +caf@bitchx.org +January 7th, 2017 Previous authors: Rob Andrews