Re: make error on Mac OS 10.3.5 with XCode 1.5

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, James Tuttle wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've encountered a fatal and repeatable error while trying to compile
> ncurses on my Mac OS X system. I'm running OS 10.3.5 with XCode (aka
> Developer Tools) 1.5. The error and a few lines leading up to it are
> pasted in below.
>
> I have nothing particularly odd installed that should be interfering
> with the build ... at least that I can think of. Just zlib, openssl,
> the darwinports package/source manager...that's about it.
>
> Just wondering if you can give me any advice as to what might be the
> problem, or whether this is an incompatibility between ncurses and
> something.

Here's a guess: when building shared libraries, and if a prior version
of the shared library exists, some platforms linkers don't pay much
attention to the -L options, using the installed shared library instead.

>
> Thanks very much in advance,
> Sincerely,
> James Tuttle
>
> > installing ../lib/libncurses_g.a as /usr/local/lib/libncurses_g.a
> > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../lib/libncurses_g.a
> > /usr/local/lib/libncurses_g.a
> > ranlib /usr/local/lib/libncurses_g.a
> > cd progs && make DESTDIR="" install
> > gcc ../objects/tput.o -L../lib -lncurses      -I../progs -I.
> > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include  -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
> > -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include/ncurses -O2
> > -no-cpp-precomp -o tput
> > ld: Undefined symbols:
> > __nc_tparm_analyze
> > make[1]: *** [tput] Error 1
> > make: *** [install] Error 2
> > dorms-067-234:/Volumes/Pippin/tmp/ncurses-5.4 jtuttle$
>
>
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