Re: a2ps on Cygwin quietly exits with code 127 on Windows 7

[Rasputin Paskudniak <rpaskudniak at yahoo dot com>]

On 7/27/2010 12:47 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 04:53 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >    Try installing libintl2.  a2ps.exe depends on that very old version but
> > doesn't mention it explicitly in its setup.hint dependencies.  (Probably it
> > used to get pulled in by default anyway by some other package but now the last
> > other thing that used to use v2 of libintl has been updated to a more recent
> > one so there's nothing left to cause it to be installed any more.)
>
> The a2ps maintainer is David Hudson, who has AFAICS not been heard from
> on these lists since October 2005.  In the meantime, besides this
> release depending on an ancient libintl2, there is a new version 4.14
> available upstream.
>
>
> Yaakov

Yaakov,
I have tried compiling 4.14.  Here is the last few lines of the make 
output, with line numbers to compensate for line-breaks:

    179     /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" 
-DSYSCONFFILE=\"/usr/local/etc/a2ps.cfg\" -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../intl 
-I.    -g -O2  -c -o path-concat.lo path-concat.c
    180  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" 
-DSYSCONFFILE=\"/usr/local/etc/a2ps.cfg\" -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../intl 
-I. -g -O2 -c path-concat.c -o path-concat.o
    181 In file included from path-concat.c:30:
    182 /usr/include/string.h:58: error: parse error before "void"
    183 make[3]: *** [path-concat.lo] Error 1
    184 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/Jake/scratch/a2ps/a2ps-4.14/lib'
    185 make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
    186 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Jake/scratch/a2ps/a2ps-4.14/lib'
    187 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
    188 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Jake/scratch/a2ps/a2ps-4.14'
    189 make: *** [all] Error 2

(Sighh..)


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