I tried to compile xpupsay from xpupsay-1.2.1.tar.gz patched by technosaurus running Puppy Precise 5.3.4 but didn't succeed:
Any idea of what's going wrong?# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes
checking for _Bool... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strchr... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for XCOWSAY... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/my-documents/downloads/xpupsay-1.2.1'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/my-documents/downloads/xpupsay-1.2.1/po'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/sdb2/my-documents/downloads/xpupsay-1.2.1/po'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/my-documents/downloads/xpupsay-1.2.1/src'
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/xpupsay\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. @XPUPSAY_CFLAGS@ -Wall -g -O2 -MT xpupsay.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/xpupsay.Tpo -c -o xpupsay.o xpupsay.c
gcc: error: @XPUPSAY_CFLAGS@: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [xpupsay.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/sdb2/my-documents/downloads/xpupsay-1.2.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/sdb2/my-documents/downloads/xpupsay-1.2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
#
Thank you.
Cordialement.