Re: xterm fails to link against local ncurses

[Christian Ebert]

* Thomas Dickey on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:43:42 -0500
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> * Thomas Dickey on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:18:46 -0500
>>> hmm (looking at the special options used in ncurses for darwin) perhaps
>>> 
>>> LDFLAGS=-Wl,-search_paths_first
>>> 
>>> would help - see for example
>>> 
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg18032.html
>> 
>> nope. Hm.
> 
> What does the link command for xterm look like?  It's more likely on
> that end, than in ncurses.

Sorry to be a noob; what exactly do you mean by "link command"?

> xterm has an additional complication, using plink.sh to filter out
> unnecessary libraries.  I made that feature optional in another
> configure script (though I'm thinking the problem is more along the
> lines of not giving the right type of -L or rpath option).

Could it be that because freetype is under /sw it gets the upper
hand?

Again, thanks for your patience.

c
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