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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 02:03:16 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
Cc:        "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cscope compilation (problem with port).....
Message-ID:  <20000519020316.A27439@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <39242990.EAD1CCE3@i-clue.de>; from so@server.i-clue.de on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 07:34:08PM %2B0200
References:  <20000518161146.X31123@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005181214110.816-100000@pcd75.sasi.com> <20000518124337.C4748@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <39242990.EAD1CCE3@i-clue.de>

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I think your ports collection is a trifle out of date. cscope is
presently under a bsd-style license, it downloads fine but doesn't
compile on a 3.4 system.  As Naidu pointed out, it compiles if
you change references to curses.h to ncurses.h.

Christoph Sold said on May 18, 2000 at 19:34:08:
> A clear case of not reading at least a screenful of characters.
> 
> /usr/ports/devel/cscope says
> ...A source site license is available for approximately US$500 from distributors...
> 
> make in that directory says clearly:
> >> cscope-13.7.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
> >> /cdrom/cscope/cscope.1 not found.  Perhaps the AT&T CD isn't mounted?
>                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> It seems you have to buy the Lucent Software Toolchest II CD-ROM to make it compile.
> Read on at <http://www.lucent.com/ssg/html/toolchest.html>.
> 
> You'll get redirected to...
> Unipress
> 2025 Lincoln Highway
> Edison, NJ 08817
> Phone: (732) 287-2100
> 
> But no link. YMMV.
> 
> HTH
> -Christoph Sold
> 
> Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 
> > There does seem to be a problem with the port on a 3.4-stable
> > system.  Maybe I just need a newer build, but it chokes with
> > exactly the error messages Naidu mentions.  I don't know whether
> > it's a 3.4 - 4.0 incompatibility thing -- I've noticed that on some
> > other ports too.
> >
> > Rahul.
> >
> > G.B.Naidu said on May 18, 2000 at 12:33:50:
> > >
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > These are the locations shown in the FreeBSD ports listing of cscope:
> > >
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/cscope/cscope-15.0bl2.tar.gz
> > > http://download.sourceforge.net/cscope/cscope-15.0bl2.tar.gz
> > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/cscope-15.0bl2.tar.gz
> > >
> > > In the above list, the third url is not working. The other URLs sources
> > > have the same problem as I mentioned earlier. Why ftp.FreeBSD.org is not
> > > working?
> > >
> > > What is the exact location?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > --gb
> > >
> > >  On Thu, 18 May 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thursday, 18 May 2000 at 12:06:15 +0530, G.B.Naidu wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I got the cscope source code from the site: http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
> > > > >
> > > > > This url is mentioned in one of the files on FreeBSD ftp site.
> > > > >
> > > > > When I am trying to compile, there some macros which are not defined in
> > > > > FreeBSD. They are: KEY_BREAK, KEY_ENTER, KEY_BACKSPACE, KEY_BREAK etc.
> > > > >
> > > > > These are define in linux in the file curses.h  For FreeBSD, what shall I
> > > > > do? Thanks for the help
> > > >
> > > > Don't reinvent the wheel.  I told you where to look for the port; get
> > > > it there.
> > > >
> > > > Greg
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