From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 13 12: 4:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sheffield.cnchost.com (sheffield.concentric.net [207.155.252.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F30E37B404 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 12:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by sheffield.cnchost.com id PAA29482; Mon, 13 May 2002 15:04:22 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <200205131904.PAA29482@sheffield.cnchost.com> To: Peter Elsner Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tconv In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 12:09:40 CDT." <5.1.0.14.2.20020513120543.00a36110@mail.servplex.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 12:04:22 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > # XXX broken: tconv <---- has been broken since at > least 4.4... > # XXX Use GNU versions: apropos bc dc diff grep ld man patch ptx uucp whatis > # Moved to secure: bdes > # > > Any idea when this will get fixed? I need this program. I ran into the same thing a while ago. tconv fails because lib/libmytinfo has been retired. Seems like there are no plans to bring it back. There is an ncurses port in /usr/ports/devel/ncurses but it does not have tconv. Also, for FreeBSD version >= 4.0 it won't compile. As a workaround you can bring libmytinfo back from the dead and compile tconv as follows (do this as root). cd /usr/src/lib cvs up -d libtmyinfo -D'23 November 1999' cd libmytinfo make install cd /usr/src/usr.bin/tconv make install This assumes CVSROOT points to a proper CVS repository. Seems to work on a FreeBSD-4.5 system but I have not done much testing. -- bakul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message