Move COMPILE-PROBLEMS into INSTALL

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Kevin Easton
2017-01-07 14:54:10 +11:00
parent 657acd8985
commit 7dce90d809
2 changed files with 19 additions and 15 deletions

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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

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INSTALL
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Introduction: Introduction:
Problems may occur during the compilation process of BitchX. If Problems may occur during the compilation process of BitchX. Some common
you do have a problem, please gather as much information about the error 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 (*FULL* output of "make") and join #BitchX on EFNet, or use the Sourceforge
page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitchx/. 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" Users without superuser access will typically see a "permission denied"
error here if they try to install to the default prefix. 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
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December 31st, 2012 January 7th, 2017
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