I'm trying to install ncurses 5.9 on OS X 10.8 with GCC 4.9 installed. No errors or warnings show up when I run ./configure in the ncurses directory, but when I run make, I get gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-cpp-precomp’. Upon googling the issue (and trying it out), I found that --no-cpp-precomp (with two dashes, i.e in long flag form) is a valid command.
I'm not sure what was prompting GCC to run the invalid command – whether it was make, or if it was a command specified in ncurses itself.
Is there any way to fix this? If so, how?
EDIT: I tried changing the reference in the ./configure file from -no-cpp-precomp to --no-cpp-precomp manually, using a text editor, and was met with this, despite GCC seemingly accepting the --no-cpp-precomp option. After that, I tried running autoreconf, and got this:
configure:6558: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DIVERT_HELP
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /opt/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
After running it with the m4_pattern_allow option:
autoreconf: 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required
After running ./configure && make anyway:
cd man && make DESTDIR="" all
sh ./MKterminfo.sh ./terminfo.head ./../include/Caps ./terminfo.tail >terminfo.5
cd include && make DESTDIR="" all
cat curses.head >curses.h
AWK=gawk sh ./MKkey_defs.sh ./Caps >>curses.h
sh -c 'if test "chtype" = "cchar_t" ; then cat ./curses.wide >>curses.h ; fi'
cat ./curses.tail >>curses.h
gawk -f MKterm.h.awk ./Caps > term.h
sh ./edit_cfg.sh ../include/ncurses_cfg.h term.h
** edit: HAVE_TCGETATTR 1
** edit: HAVE_TERMIOS_H 1
** edit: HAVE_TERMIO_H 0
** edit: BROKEN_LINKER 0
cd ncurses && make DESTDIR="" all
gcc -o make_hash -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -I./../include -I../include -DUSE_BUILD_CC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -I. -I../include -I/usr/local/include/ncurses -O2 --param max-inline-insns-single=1200 --no-cpp-precomp ./tinfo/make_hash.c -Wl,-search_paths_first
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘--no-cpp-precomp’
make[1]: *** [make_hash] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
It looks like this has been fixed in the latest patches to ncurses 5.9
The 5.9 source can be found here: ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
The latest patches are here: ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.9/ but the latest rollup patch appears to have the fix: ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.9/patch-5.9-20130504.sh.gz
To apply the patch, get the 2 files above then:
$ tar xvf ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
$ cd ncurses-5.9
$ gzip -dc ../patch-5.9-20130504.sh.gz | sh