Re: Unable to build ncurses 5.7 on Fedora 13

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:02:52AM +0200, John P. Hartmann wrote:
> gcc ../objects/tic.o ../objects/dump_entry.o  -I../progs -I.
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
>  -DNDEBUG -O2 --param max-inline-insns-single=1200 -static -L../lib
> -lncurses -L../lib -lncurses -dynamic   -o tic
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc

I've not seen this for Linux, but recall some other systems (Solaris, iirc),
where ld gets confused by the switch between dynamic/static.

fwiw, I've built ncurses 5.7 + current patches with Fedora13.
Perhaps knowing the configure options you're using would help.

> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [tic] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ncurses-5.7/progs'
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 Jul  6 15:30 /usr/lib/libc.so
> 
> I've built other packages from source without problems.  Is it a
> versioning problem?  [I did read INSTALL.]

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