Re: The GEL lib (NILS read this!)

[Nils Barth <nbarth@fas.harvard.edu>]

Thus spake George:
> Ok, I've changed the setup on the standard library.  It's now built in a
> different manner.  There is no index.gel.  Instead there are some
> automatically generated loader.gel files in each directory.  I've had to
> change genius to do the loading properly and to switch directories properly.
> But now the compliation will catch all errors and it will recompile properly
> when you change any file.  You still have to run make in the dr-genius/lib
> directory however, not in it's subdirectories as that will not make the
> library.

Okay, so how do I test-compile all the GEL libraries?
Go to dr-genius/lib and type `make'? (this doesn't seem to work for me)

> Ok, so to add new files and stuff you just add them and then add the file
> to the appropriate part of the makefile (on top somewhere).  Just like before
> And the make will take care of all the dependencies and stuff like that.

okay.

> This should make it simpler to catch those library compile errors which have
> been creeping in all the time :)

compile errors? what compile errors? ;-)

> And it will make sure that the library recompiles when the .gel
> files are updated. 

cool.

Oh, and I'm still having trouble with ./configure.
I'm still getting:
configure: error: Termcap library not found

and so I can't `make' to test out these new updates.

-- 
  -nils