Re: ncurses-5.5 misc/shlib bug?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Paul Novak wrote:

> I'm building my first Linux From Scratch system.
> I'm build the packages as login root with /root as the base,
> and using DESTDIR=/install for package management reasons.
> Because I'm building from scratch, I do not (yet) have
> a /lib/libncursesw.so.5 library installed: it will be installed
> when ncurses is installed.
>
> For ncurses 5.5, the tarball is unpacked into /root/ncurses-5.5.
> It compiles fine, but when I try to install it
> (running "make DESTDIR=/install install" while in the
> /root/ncurses-5.5 directory), I get this error:
>
>    tic: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory

ok... (and the only reason for shlib there is that tic's usually built
without rpath ;-)

> I think there should be a 'break' after the first valid lib directory is found,
> like this:
>
>    q=`cd $p; pwd` && break
>
> But I'm not sure what the possible ramifications are, I'm just reporting
> possible problem.

thanks - I see (will see what a good fix is).  I haven't changed that 
script since mid-2005...

> This problem wouldn't occur if I were building in a lower directory (eg, 
> root/build). But it still seems like a problem with the shlib script. 
> I should be able to build in /root if I want to, shouldn't I?

You should - I don't recall anyone trying.  Usually it's a level or two 
down at least.

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