Problem with a configure option

[Pierre]

Hi,

I would just report that the use of the --enable-broken_linker option 
when configuring ncurses 5.4 can put problems when compiling some other 
software.
For example I got this problem with gphoto2 :

[...]
Making all in gphoto2
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/gphoto2-2.1.5/gphoto2'
gcc -s -O3 -march=i686 -g -Wall -Wmissing-declarations
-Wmissing-prototypes -g -Wall -o gphoto2
gphoto2-cmd-capture.o gphoto2-cmd-config.o actions.o
foreach.o gp-params.o main.o version.o range.o shell.o
-L/usr/local/lib -lcdk -lncurses -L/usr/local/lib
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -laa -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-lX11 -lgpm -lslang -lncurses -ljpeg -lpthread
-L/usr/local/lib -lexif -lm -lreadline
-L/usr/local/lib -lgphoto2 -lgphoto2_port -lm -lpopt
-lgphoto2
/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
warning: libexif.so.9, needed by
/usr/local/lib/libgphoto2.so, may conflict with
libexif.so.12
/usr/local/lib/libcdk.a(calendar.o)(.text+0x2df): In function 
`newCDKCalendar':
: undefined reference to `acs_map'
/usr/local/lib/libcdk.a(calendar.o)(.text+0x2ea): In function 
`newCDKCalendar':
: undefined reference to `acs_map'
/usr/local/lib/libcdk.a(calendar.o)(.text+0x2f5): In function 
`newCDKCalendar':
: undefined reference to `acs_map'
/usr/local/lib/libcdk.a(calendar.o)(.text+0x300): In function 
`newCDKCalendar':
: undefined reference to `acs_map'
/usr/local/lib/libcdk.a(calendar.o)(.text+0x30b): In function 
`newCDKCalendar':
: undefined reference to `acs_map'
/usr/local/lib/libcdk.a(calendar.o)(.text+0x316): more
undefined references to `acs_map' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [gphoto2] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gphoto2-2.1.5/gphoto2'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gphoto2-2.1.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Regards,

--
Pierre.