[colug-432] [re]building procps

[Judd Montgomery]

I just downloaded procps-3.2.8 onto ubuntu 12.04 and built it.  I had to 
install libcurses5-dev.

Judd

On 05/10/2013 01:12 PM, Rick Troth wrote:
> 'make' is GNU Make and is 3.82.
> But ... great suggestion! ... I've had other packages with an allergy
> to newer 'make'.  I keep 3.79.1 around for that.  Will give it a try.
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:44 PM, FiL Farris <philipfarris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I may be taking care of my daily "what the $@#! is he babbling about"
>> statement of the day here but what version of make are you using?  I had a
>> SIMILAR problem in the past and the version of make ended up being the
>> cause.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
>>> Has anyone built PROCPS recently?
>>>
>>> On my home-brew systems, I've had trouble getting the package to
>>> compile for more than a year.  At this point, I really want to get
>>> some clean-room fresh builds, so I don't want to carry forward an old
>>> build.
>>>
>>> I've tried a range of releases (of the source, for which a dozen older
>>> releases are still available on the SF site for the project ... atta
>>> boys well deserved).  With most of the older (3.1.x) I get linker
>>> errors starting with missing "Hertz".
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -- R;   <><
>>>