All that seems to have worked find, except that 'make check' complained
a couple of times about not having a text editor. In fact I am generating
and will be sending this message, using nmh, from the ubuntu computer.
Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> writes:
Hi Norm,
Here's what I did to build nmh-1.7.1.tar.gz on Ubuntu 18.04.
In short, install these packages to improve the chance of success.
sudo apt-get install \
libncurses5-dev \
libreadline-dev \
libgdbm-compat-dev \
libgdbm-dev \
libcurl4-openssl-dev \
libsasl2-dev \
libssl-dev
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
...
I have given up trying to install nmh from a package, deciding instead
to install from the sources.
That might mean either installing from a git clone, or a
nmh-1.7.1.tar.gz.
Either way, the INSTALL file covers what to do next. Before starting at
step 0 for a git clone, or step 1 for the tar file, it says to check the
MACHINES file for OS-specific instructions.
MACHINES says for Linux that a bunch of packages are required to run,
build, and test nmh. However, I found none of those exist on
Ubuntu 18.04!
On running ./configure with nmh-1.7.1.tar.gz I get the same error that
you suffer. To find packages that provide a file called curses.h I did
$ apt-file find -x '/curses\.h$'
libncurses5-dev: /usr/include/curses.h
libncursesw5-dev: /usr/include/ncursesw/curses.h
$
Examining config.log shows that the #include is
#include <curses.h>
Given there's no mention of ‘ncursesw’ there I went with the other
option and installed libncurses5-dev.
Next ./configure failure:
checking for dbm in ndbm.h... no
checking for dbm in db.h and db... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and db... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and db1... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and ndbm... no
checking for dbm in db1/ndbm.h and db1... no
checking for dbm in gdbm/ndbm.h and gdbm... no
checking for dbm in gdbm/ndbm.h and gdbm_compat -lgdbm... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and gdbm... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and gdbm_compat -lgdbm... no
checking for dbm in gdbm-ndbm.h and gdbm_compat... no
configure: error: could not find a working ndbm library/header combination
Searching for the error:
$ grep 'fatal error' config.log
...
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: db.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: db1/ndbm.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: gdbm/ndbm.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: gdbm/ndbm.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:45:10: fatal error: gdbm-ndbm.h: No such file or directory
$
$ apt-file find -x 'ndbm\.h$'
freebsd-glue: /usr/include/freebsd/ndbm.h
libace-dev: /usr/include/ace/os_include/os_ndbm.h
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe3cbcf000)
→ libreadline.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.7
(0x00007f9e77a0b000)
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f9e777e1000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9e773f0000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9e77eb3000)
$
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Norman Shapiro