[Remind-Fans] Remind-fans Digest, Vol 30, Issue 12

[Manish]

On 8/21/06, Manish <mailtomanish.sharma at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/21/06, Paul Pelzl <pelzlpj at eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:15:21AM +0530, Manish wrote:
> > > Yay!!  I removed the leading slash from prefix line in Makefile, ran
> > > make install and much goodness!
> >
> > OK, good deal.
> >
> >
> > > I hope I will not have to trouble you when I compile the next version.
> > >  Many thanks for kind and patient support and for a great add-on to a
> > > great application!
> >
> > No problem; I'm glad you find it useful.  For the next release, I'll see
> > if I can do something about the double slash issue...
> >
> > For the benefit of other Cygwin users, it might be helpful if you add a
> > quick follow-up post to the mailing list to explain what you had to do.
> >
>
> I will do that in a day or two.
>

Yes, it's been certainly more than "a day or two".  But I owe it to
Paul to follow through on the promise.

How I compiled "remind" and "wyrd" on Cygwin (WinXP)
----------------------------------------------------

Remind
------
0. Pre-requisites: gcc, make, README (part of the package)
1. Download [a], gunzip and untar "remind" source in /tmp
2. Change directory to remind-03.00.24/
3. Customize src/custom.h and src/lang.h (Don't mention a leading zero in
   latitude or longitude specifications! [c])
   because of something I did.)
4. ./configure && make && make install


Wyrd
----
0. Pre-requisites: remind, page #3 of doc/manual.pdf (part of the package)
1. Download [b], gunzip and untar "wyrd" source in /tmp
2. Change directory to wyrd-1.4.1/
3. Run configure like so:
   $ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncurses ./configure --with-ncurses
4. replace "prefix = /usr/local" with "prefix = usr/local" on
   line #21 in ./Makefile
5. make && make install

Notes
-----
[a]. http://www.roaringpenguin.com/en/penguin/openSourceProducts/remind
[b]. http://freshmeat.net/projects/wyrd/
[c]. "#DEFINE LAT_MIN 09" in custom.h caused below error:

<error>
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/remind-03.00.24/src'
gcc -c -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I. -I. globals.c
In file included from globals.c:22:
globals.h:93:36: invalid digit "9" in octal constant
make[1]: *** [globals.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/remind-03.00.24/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2
</error>

Replacing it with "#DEFINE LAT_MIN 9" and running
./configure && make solved it.

HtH
-- 
Manish