Re: Problem installing ncurses 5.4

[Pierre]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 08:09:45AM +0100, Pierre wrote:
>
> > Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Pierre wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > [...]
> > > > installing ../lib/libncurses.la as /usr/lib/libncurses.la
> > > > cd ../lib; /usr/local/bin/libtool --mode=install 
> > > > /usr/local/bin/install -c libncurses.la /usr/lib
> > > > /usr/local/bin/install -c .libs/libncurses.so.5.0.4 
> > > > /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.0.4
> > > > (cd /usr/lib && rm -f libncurses.so.5 && ln -s libncurses.so.5.0.4 
> > > > libncurses.so.5)
> > > > (cd /usr/lib && rm -f libncurses.so && ln -s libncurses.so.5.0.4 
> > > > libncurses.so)
> > > > /usr/local/bin/sed: relocation error: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: 
>
>
> It occurs to me that installing a libtool'd ncurses on top of a non-libtool'd
> ncurses is not simple.  (The configure script and makefiles only know about
> installing onto a similar system).
>
> For instance, on this system, it would try to add these entries to /usr/lib:
>
>         libncurses.a
>         libncurses.la
>         libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.5.0.4
> 	libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.0.4  
>
> But I already have
>
>         libncurses.a
>         libncurses.so -> /lib/libncurses.so.5
>         libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so
>
> and in /lib
>
>         libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.4
>         libncurses.so.5.4
>
> Technically that's in the realm of libtool, and as you see, it doesn't
> manage it either.  I do fixups manually, from my directory editor, but
> noting that various programs such as your shell are dependent upon ncurses,
> it's a little tricky to do.  (Why does sed use ncurses?)

Here is what I have now :

# locate libncurses.
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.0.4
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.0.3
/usr/lib/libncurses.a
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
/usr/lib/libncurses.so
/usr/lib/libncurses.la

# ls -la /usr/lib/libncurses.*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 432938 Nov 13  2002 /usr/lib/libncurses.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    721 Nov 13  2002 /usr/lib/libncurses.la
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     19 Nov 24 08:07 /usr/lib/libncurses.so -> 
libncurses.so.5.0.4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     19 Nov 24 08:07 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 -> 
libncurses.so.5.0.4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 292404 Nov 13  2002 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 143881 Nov 24 08:07 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.0.4


> > > > undefined symbol: TABSIZE
> > > > /usr/local/bin/install -c .libs/i /usr/lib/
> > > > /usr/local/bin/install: cannot stat `.libs/i': No such file or directory
> > > > make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> > > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/ncurses-5.4/ncurses'
> > > > make: *** [install] Error 2
> > >
> > >
> > > hmm - other than seeing that it's attempting to use libtool, I can't tell
> > > much about it.  (The ".libs/i" is definitely an error, but whether libtool
> > > or some other cause, I cannot say).  Perhaps seeing the config.status and
> > > config.log would help.
> >
> > Ok I'm attaching them to this email.
>
>
> I still don't see a cause for the ".libs/i".

Me neither... but maybe do you have an idea for the TABSIZE symbol ?

Regards,

--
Pierre.