Re: dlsym not needed when linking statically

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, address@hidden wrote:

> I just tried to link ncurses 5.5 statically with the diet libc, and it
> fails.  It fails because configure wants to have dlsym (which is not
> there when linking statically).  Why does it want to have dlsym?  So it
> can check whether libgpm.so (which does not exist when linking
> statically) has a dependency on libcurses.so (as far as I can see).
>
> Please remove this evil kludge from configure, at least in the case
> --enable-static --disable-shared.

So you're statically linking with gpm then, and can offer some advice on
how this is being used.

Otherwise you could simply do this:
        configure --without-gpm

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