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[j0ram]

Howdy! Just moved to a new shell server, and sadly, I cannot get my tintin to compile. And unfortunately, I know zip all about coding.

Perhaps there's someone who could help?

The OS is FreeBSD

The first time around, I was getting:

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c:/homex/j0ram/tt/src>make
gcc -Wall -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c action.c
In file included from action.c:28:
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So I located pcre.h in the /usr/local/include folder, and changed the tinexp.c and tintin.h files to:
#include </usr/local/include/pcre.h>

Then I attempted to make once again, and got further. There were a few errocs akin to:

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system.c: In function `do_run':
system.c:63: warning: implicit declaration of function `forkpty'
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and

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list.c: In function `array_find':
list.c:197: warning: 'index' might be used uninitialized in this function
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But it proceeded to the Linking stage, at which time it bombed, with the following error:

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---- Linking...
gcc -Wall -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o tt++ action.o alias.o files.o help.o highlight.o strhash.o input.o log.o main.o misc.o net.o parse.o path.o update.o history.o tab.o vt102.o terminal.o session.o function.o text.o substitute.o tick.o telopt.o math.o split.o debug.o tinexp.o mapper.o tables.o buffer.o prompt.o class.o event.o utils.o chat.o macro.o config.o gag.o variable.o list.o forkpty.o cursor.o memory.o system.o line.o tokenize.o data.o nest.o advertise.o -lutil -lpthread -lz
tinexp.o(.text+0x5d): In function `regexp_compare':
: undefined reference to `pcre_exec'
tinexp.o(.text+0x1af): In function `regexp_compare':
: undefined reference to `pcre_compile'
tinexp.o(.text+0x2cb): In function `regexp_compile':
: undefined reference to `pcre_compile'
*** Error code 1
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Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been using tintin since '93, and I can't live without it!

Thanks so much,
j0ram

[Scandum]

Rather than modifying the sourcecode I think you need to point ./configure in the right direction regarding where pcre is located.

Try:

./configure --includedir=usr/local/include

The warning in list.c is nothing to be worried about, and the warning in system.c may not be a problem as long as you don't use the #run command. I'll look into that when I have time.