Re: Unable to build ncurses 5.7 on Fedora 13

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, John P. Hartmann wrote:

> I took it straight out of the box: ./configure ; make.
>
> The rum thing is that there is no -lc on the command line.

Usually I build shared libraries for Linux (along with static), so tic
would be linked with a shared library.  The rules are a little different
for ld in that case.  (Adding -lc is however usually unnecessary).

I can investigate this more, this evening...

>   j.
>
> On 22 October 2010 12:49, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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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