Re: Issues cross-compiling ncurses-5.7 on Fedora Core 9

[Philip A. Prindeville]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
>>
>>> I'm the lead developer on the Astlinux project.  We recently did a
>>> version bump of ncurses from 5.5 to 5.7.
>>>
>>> Immediately we noticed that the "run_tic.sh" stage went into an endless
>>> loop and started using all of the CPU.
>>>
>>> We reproduced this on a couple of different platforms (FC9 and Centos5).
>>>
>>> A quick search revealed this was a known issue.
>>
>> I documented this in the changelog:
> 
> ...also, worth mentioning, is that it's unclear how the problem would
> appear with the default "make install" rule which first installs the
> libraries, then the programs and finally the data.  The install for
> the data does try to use the tic program from the build to ensure that
> an y incompatible features are addressed by the build-tic.
> 
> That scheme won't work for cross-compiles (but this report doesn't fit
> into that area).

Actually, that's exactly our scenario.  We're building binaries for an entirely 
different platform (i586 instead of x86_64, and uClibc-based instead of glibc).

-Philip

> If one uses a script that does the "make install.data" first, that
> certainly will break, but that's never been a supported route, since the
> new version of tic could be incompatible.