Re: failure to compile

[Carl Hansen]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 05:36:58AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 04:07:26AM -0400, Carl Hansen wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 06:04:52PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 12:45:51AM -0500, Carl Hansen wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2022 at 08:03:10PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2022 at 05:47:19PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2022 at 09:08:39AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2022 at 03:12:13AM -0500, Carl Hansen wrote:
> > > > > > > > ncurses-6.3-20220226
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > snip
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > >> > 
> > > > I am using Fedora 34 gcc 12.01 
> > > 
> > > I have 12.0.1 on my Fedora Rawhide machine, and see a discrepancy between
> > > my successful build and yours:
> > > 
> > > checking whether gnatgcc accepts -g... yes
> > > checking version of gnatgcc... 11.2.1
> > >                                ^^^^^^
> > > 
> > > (mine shows this as 12.0.1).
> > 
> > That solved the compile problem, hadn't made the ln -s gcc gnatgcc,
> > picked up the old one in the PATH
> > 
> > There is another problem during installation, for that version and the 
> > current 6.3-20220312:
> > tic 
> > 
> > make[2]: Entering directory 
> > '/users/chansen/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/ncurses/work/ncursesw-6.3-20220312-build/misc'
> > mkdir -p 
> > /users/chansen/gsrc/packages/ncurses-6.3-20220312-DEST/users/chansen/gsrc/share/tabset
> > DESTDIR= \
> > prefix=/users/chansen/gsrc/packages/ncurses-6.3-20220312-DEST/users/chansen/gsrc
> >  \
> > exec_prefix=/users/chansen/gsrc/packages/ncurses-6.3-20220312-DEST/users/chansen/gsrc
> >  \
> > bindir=/users/chansen/gsrc/packages/ncurses-6.3-20220312-DEST/users/chansen/gsrc/bin
> >  \
> > top_srcdir=../../ncurses-6.3-20220312 \
> > srcdir=../../ncurses-6.3-20220312/misc \
> > datadir=/users/chansen/gsrc/packages/ncurses-6.3-20220312-DEST/users/chansen/gsrc/share
> >  \
> > ticdir=/users/chansen/gsrc/share/terminfo \
> > source=terminfo.tmp \
> > cross_compiling=no \
> > /bin/sh ./run_tic.sh
> > ** Building terminfo database, please wait...
> > Running sh ../../ncurses-6.3-20220312/misc/shlib tic to install 
> > /users/chansen/gsrc/share/terminfo ...
> > 
> >     You may see messages regarding extended capabilities, e.g., AX.
> >     These are extended terminal capabilities which are compiled
> >     using
> >             tic -x
> >     If you have ncurses 4.2 applications, you should read the INSTALL
> >     document, and install the terminfo without the -x option.
> > 
> > tic: symbol lookup error: tic: undefined symbol: _nc_disable_period
> > tic: symbol lookup error: tic: undefined symbol: _nc_disable_period
> > ? tic could not build /users/chansen/gsrc/share/terminfo
> 
> That's because it's attempting to run the build-tree's version of tic,
> but loading the system copy of ncurses libraries.  The newer tic uses
> additional symbols not found in the system's ncurses libraries.
> 
> You can work around that either by using the rpath option (e.g.,
> --enable-rpath during the configure), or by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> in the environment used for this install.
> 
> Since you're not installing as root, that latter should be easy.
> 
> Something like this would work:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/users/chansen/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/ncurses/work/ncursesw-6.3-20220312-build/lib
>  make
> 
> But if you're planning to _use_ the programs in ~/gsrc/, something more
> persistent is needed.
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
> https://invisible-island.net
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net

Thanks for the good information, past that now.