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could not compile gpm

I was trying to re-compile gpm with "--without-curses" as recommended in https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html, but found out that even with the gpm source without modification from Slackware, it could not be compiled, got the error:

Code:

checking where to install Emacs Lisp files... ./configure: eval: line 11726: syntax error near unexpected token `('

./configure: eval: line 11726: `itz_cv_path_site_lisp= mapbacktrace(#f(compiled-function (evald func args flags) #<bytecode -0xc2e99e784512f81>))'

Anyone encounter similar error?

I figured it out. I forgot that I built the emacs from the current source and replaced the one comes with 15.0. After restored to version 27.2, problem solved.

That leaves me a question, could gpm be compiled fine under -current? Currently I don't have a box running current yet to verify.

gpm fails, and has for some time. It hasn't built for at least the last month or more, which I'm sure would be fixable but I don't emacs.

Code:

checking for emacs... /usr/bin/emacs

checking where to install Emacs Lisp files... ./configure: eval: line 12623: syntax error near unexpected token `('

./configure: eval: line 12623: `itz_cv_path_site_lisp= mapbacktrace(#f(compiled-function (evald func args flags) #<bytecode 0x9307acbedae98bf>))'

: failed configure

Quote:

Originally Posted by qunying (Post 6487635)

That leaves me a question, could gpm be compiled fine under -current? Currently I don't have a box running current yet to verify.

It compiles here.

Since emacs in 15.0 was updated to 29.3, gpm could not be compiled (same error related to emacs elisp), I look at it a little deeper, and found the previous patch for removing emace/elisp related code is not very clean, still something is left.

After modified it a little, it compiled fine.

This need to remove the gpm.configure.diff.gz patch, and patch the source before calling to "sh autogen.sh" line.

Code:

--- gpm-1.20.7/configure.ac.footer        2012-10-26 14:21:38.000000000 -0700

+++ gpm-new/configure.ac.footer        2024-03-27 10:33:24.990473076 -0700

@@ -49,22 +49,6 @@

 AC_PATH_PROG(MAKEINFO,makeinfo,no)

 AC_PATH_PROG(DIFF,diff,no)

 AC_PATH_PROG(SED,sed,no)

-AC_PATH_PROG(emacs,emacs,no)

-

-if test ${ac_cv_path_emacs} = no ; then

-        EMACS=:

-        ELISP=

-else

-        EMACS=${ac_cv_path_emacs}

-        ELISP="emacs/t-mouse.el emacs/t-mouse.elc"

-fi

-

-if test $EMACS != : ; then

-        ITZ_PATH_SITE_LISP

-        lispdir=${itz_cv_path_site_lisp}

-else

-        lispdir='${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp'

-fi

 

 # Header-checks

 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(syslog.h linux/input.h linux/joystick.h ncurses.h ncurses/curses.h curses.h)

--- gpm-1.20.7/Makefile.in        2012-10-26 14:21:38.000000000 -0700

+++ gpm-new/Makefile.in        2024-03-27 10:42:51.557448721 -0700

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

 # user-overridable flags, but it's also all the implicit rule looks at.

 # missing ?

 

-SUBDIRS = src doc contrib

+SUBDIRS = src doc

 

 

 ### simple, but effective rules

Also, according to Using gpm libe with ncurses, it would be better to compile gpm with "--without-curses".