I ran across an interesting issue. My system is Arch Linux (latest) on an ASUS laptop. Now, the really weird issue:
finger is not automatically installed with Arch. I attempted to use pacman to install it, and it’s not in the repositories. It IS in the AUR.
I downloaded the AUR file, un-tarred the tar with tar -xvf bsd-finger0.17.tar.gz. This created the directory folder with the same name. I ran ./configure which gave the expected output:
` /usr/man Looking for a C compiler... gcc Checking if gcc accepts gcc warnings... yes Checking if gcc accepts -O2... yes Checking for socklen_t... yes Checking for snprintf declaration... ok Checking for snprintf implementation... ok Generating MCONFIG...`
Then I tried to make, and got this weird tidbit: http://pastebin.com/0qACttCu
So, it looks like it’s having weird compiling issues. Any ideas on what’s up here?
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Answer
I have no idea what AUR is, but it seems you are not using it the way it is supposed to be used.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Build_and_install_the_package
That wiki says that you should build an AUR package with “makepkg”
But anyway looking at https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=netkit-bsd-finger
It seems you just need to add time.h as include to two files and it should compile.