Re: getting ncurses built with libtool and creating libncurses++.so

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> > I have been trying to get ncurses to build from ncurses-5.3
> > source to provide libncurses++.so files.
>
> I have an impression that libtool doesn't support (very well) shared
> libraries in C++, except for recent versions.  Perhaps 1.4 is recent
> enough - I don't know yet (will take a look to see).  But "heavily
> patched" doesn't tell me much.  I've mainly built that configuration
> on Linux using a variety of libtool versions.

I was using the libtool as provided from the portable pkgsrc packaging
system. (pkgsrc is commonly used and developed for NetBSD, but is useful
for a variety of other operating systems, like Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
Irix, Darwin OS, Mac OS X, other BSDs, etc.)

A BSD/OS porting guru from the bsdi-users mailing list gave me his libtool
1.4.2 with improved BSD/OS support. I was able to get the libncurses++.so*
files built when using --with-libtool.

The strange thing is that the pkgsrc-provided libtool works for making
libncurses++.so for other operating systems (at least for Linux and NetBSD
that I have tested).

> > This is under BSD/OS 4.3.1 with a heavily patched libtool-base-1.4. And
> > g++ from gcc 2.95.3.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/