Re: failure to compile

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 03:51:38PM -0400, Carl Hansen wrote:
> 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.

sounds good.

I'm not done with gnat 12.0.1 + shared-libraries (-fPIC vs -fPIE, but
made more complicated due to gnat's configuration quirks).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net

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