"No absolute path for shell:" error

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Douglas Spearot wrote:

>
> Thank you for the response Thomas.
>
> I downloaded the source from the website that you listed below.  When I try
> to run the 'configure' file that you created to build XTERM, I get a number
> of error messages (all of which say the same thing):
>
> "The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the dynamic link
> library cygwin1.dll"
>
> Then I get in the xterm window:
>
> $ configure
> checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
> checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
> configuring for cygwin
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl... no
> configure: error: no accpetbale cc found in $PATH
>
> Am I missing a component of X development?

something - but I don't know what.  The config.log file would have 
whatever error messages are actually available.  It sounds as if you
don't have gcc installed (though also I noted the last time I installed
cygwin that the base install lacks development libraries).  This is
probably something you can ask about on the regular cygwin mailing list.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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