Re: Unable to build ncurses 5.7 on Fedora 13

[John P. Hartmann]

I took it straight out of the box: ./configure ; make.

The rum thing is that there is no -lc on the command line.

   j.

On 22 October 2010 12:49, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:02:52AM +0200, John P. Hartmann wrote:
>> gcc ../objects/tic.o ../objects/dump_entry.o  -I../progs -I.
>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
>>  -DNDEBUG -O2 --param max-inline-insns-single=1200 -static -L../lib
>> -lncurses -L../lib -lncurses -dynamic   -o tic
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
>
> I've not seen this for Linux, but recall some other systems (Solaris, iirc),
> where ld gets confused by the switch between dynamic/static.
>
> fwiw, I've built ncurses 5.7 + current patches with Fedora13.
> Perhaps knowing the configure options you're using would help.
>
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[1]: *** [tic] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ncurses-5.7/progs'
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 Jul  6 15:30 /usr/lib/libc.so
>>
>> I've built other packages from source without problems.  Is it a
>> versioning problem?  [I did read INSTALL.]
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