A collection of info and/or tips about installing on different systems

• gettext
• texinfo
• some form of curses library

There are some problems with a few of the configure scripts where there is a test to ensure that a recent enough version of the texinfo program is installed. The problem is that the test is meant to check if the version is greater than 4.2 or 4.4 and the test is fine until 4.9 but it doesn't handle 4.10 or higher.

So after installing the above software and after extracting any tar file but before running configure in any of the directories you should first make the following set of changes. This will likely be a problem on most modern systems.

In binutils-2.17+os161-2.0.1/configure
Change
       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
to
       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.([4-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9])'       


In gdb-6.6+os161-2.0/configure
Change
       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
to
       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.([4-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9])'       

In gcc-4.1.2+os161-2.0/configure
Change
       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[2-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
to
       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.([2-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9])'       

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• Ubuntu 11.10
• Mac OS X Lion

Created: Wed Jan 4 19:09:56 EST 2012
Last modified Wed Jan 4 21:41:55 EST 2012