Re: xterm fails to link against local ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Christian Ebert wrote:

> * Thomas Dickey on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:18:46 -0500
> > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Christian Ebert wrote:
> > > * Thomas Dickey on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 11:46:46 -0500
> > > > I'm assuming you tried LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
> > >
> > > Yes. All kinds of combinations. For CFLAGS as well.
> > >
> > > configure even spits out:
> > >
> > > checking for private terminfo-directory... /usr/local/share/terminfo
> > >
> > > > perhaps this configure option would help (in configuring xterm):
> > > >
> > > > --disable-rpath-hack    don't add rpath options for additional libraries
> > >
> > > no joy, unfortunately.
> > >
> > > > (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)
> >
> > hmm (looking at the special options used in ncurses for darwin) perhaps
> >
> > LDFLAGS=-Wl,-search_paths_first
> >
> > would help - see for example
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg18032.html
>
> nope. Hm.

What does the link command for xterm look like?  It's more likely on
that end, than in ncurses.

xterm has an additional complication, using plink.sh to filter out
unnecessary libraries.  I made that feature optional in another
configure script (though I'm thinking the problem is more along the
lines of not giving the right type of -L or rpath option).

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