Re: xterm fails to link against local ncurses

[Christian Ebert]

* Christian Ebert on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 19:47:33 +0100
> * Thomas Dickey on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:43:42 -0500
>> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Christian Ebert wrote:
>>> * Thomas Dickey on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 12:18:46 -0500
>>>> 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.
> 
> Sorry to be a noob; what exactly do you mean by "link command"?
> 
>> 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).
> 
> Could it be that because freetype is under /sw it gets the upper
> hand?

When I --disable-freetype it is linked to:

/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib

(because of X11?)

c
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