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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!rex!ben
From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Re: less for NetBSD-0.8?
Message-ID: <CEx5vv.BDI@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 03:33:30 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
References: <29iv4u$81c@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
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altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes:

>Hi.  Has anybody compiled less for NetBSD-0.8?  i picked up the sources for
>less-177 from prep.ai.mit.edu, and agate, but for both, i get an error:

>cc  -O -o less brac.o ch.o charset.o cmdbuf.o command.o decode.o edit.o
>filename.o  forwback.o help.o input.o jump.o line.o linenum.o  lsystem.o
>main.o option.o optfunc.o opttbl.o os.o  output.o position.o mark.o ifile.o
>prompt.o screen.o  search.o signal.o tags.o ttyin.o version.o -ltermcap 
>search.o: Undefined symbol _re_comp referenced from text segment
>search.o: Undefined symbol _re_exec referenced from text segment
>*** Error code 1

>I've tried cc, and gcc 2.4.3.  I'm kinda confused....

    Try, re-configuring it to use another type of "regular expresion"
library.  I think the program to do that is "linstall".

    I don't run NetBSD, yet, but I do run less!
-- 
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen