Re: compilation error ncurses 5.2 - missing function

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On 26 Mar 2001, Jean-Pierre Schwickerath wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> I'm sorry if this problem has allready been discussed but I didn't find any
> list archives ... :-(

I made some fixes in the previous patch for this, which works for some
cases, but not all (should in fact work for the gcc snapshot you're using
since that was what I was fixing).  See the rollup patch under
ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/5.2

> 
> I'm trying to compile ncurses 5.2 on a Linux From Scratch system.
> 
> I'm currently in a chrooted environment where I have gcc-3.0 pre (snapshot
> March 5th) and glibc 2.2.2. 
> Also I have the libstdc++ snapshot of this date. Bash 2.0.4 and gAWK 3.0.6 are
> also present so as sed 3.0.2
> 
> I configured ncurses this way
> /configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib --with-shared --disable-termcap
> 
> I want to build the c++ part and I get the following error... 
> I added -I/usr/include/g++-v3 in the c++/Makefile.in 'cause gcc was 
> complaining
> about missing headers... 
> Also, I looked for a vscan function, but I didn't find any neither in
> /usr/include (and directories below) nor in ncurses-5.2/include nor
> ncurses-5.2/c++
> The closest function is extern "C" int vscanf(const char*, va_list); in
> /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cstdio.h
> 
> Does anyone have a hint or a solution?
> 
> Jean-Pierre
> 
> ERROR Output:
> --snip--
> cd ../obj_s;  c++ -I../c++ -I../include -I. -I/usr/include/g++-v3
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DNDEBUG -I. -I../include -O2 -fPIC -c ../c++/cursesw.cc
> ./c++/cursesw.cc: In member function `int NCursesWindow::scanw(const char*,
>    ...)':
> ./c++/cursesw.cc:55: no matching function for call to
>    `std::strstreambuf::vscan(const char*&, void*&)'
> ./c++/cursesw.cc: In member function `int NCursesWindow::scanw(int, int, const
>    char*, ...)':
> ./c++/cursesw.cc:77: no matching function for call to
>    `std::strstreambuf::vscan(const char*&, void*&)'
> make[1]: *** [../obj_s/cursesw.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/ncurses-5.2/c++'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> 
> 

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