Re: dlsym not needed when linking statically

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Felix von Leitner wrote:

> Thus spake Thomas Dickey (address@hidden):
> > > 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
>
> To tell you the truth: I have no idea how or why ncurses uses gpm.
> I want to use ncurses to link code that uses curses, for example the
> zsh.  Obviously, zsh will also work without gpm support in ncurses.
> But what about mutt, for example?

mutt won't either.

> What does the gpm support in ncurses do?

It's a mouse interface - allows an application to get mouse button events.

(We're talking about a development change from a year ago - I thought
everyone had had a chance to consider this one).

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