Re: xterm fails to link against local ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Christian Ebert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running the most recent ncurses(w). I am building xterm
> (267), but do not succeed in linking it against ncurses under
> /usr/local. It always links against ncurses under /sw.
>
> There are 3 ncurses on my machine (MacOS 10.5.8):
>
> /usr - Apple shipped
> /sw  - mandatory package for Fink distribution
> /usr/local
>
> I've experimented with lots of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS settings to no
> avail. I have (more or less) no problems in linking e.g. mutt,
> vim etc. against ncurses under /usr/local. What can I do?

I'm assuming you tried LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib

> I'm aware that this might be the wrong list. If yes, just tell me
> to go away - preferably with a direction where to go ;-)

perhaps this configure option would help (in configuring xterm):

  --disable-rpath-hack    don't add rpath options for additional libraries

(for one set of users or another, I've added in the configure scripts
checks to try to find where a library is, and use it at runtime -
occasionally that choice isn't what people want)

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