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 12:43:42 -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"?

something like

        gcc -o xterm main.o charproc.o ... -L /usr/local/lib/ -lncurses

In xterm's makefile, it's done at the end of plink.sh

plink.sh tries to remove as many -l's as it can, to make the binaries
less sensitive to changes in the libraries.  (It also has some special
case to handle the PCRE library).

On some systems, it's hard to mix static and shared libraries (but I seem 
to recall you're building shared libraries).

> > 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?

It might be - referring to ncurses' shlib script - something in the list 
of directories given in the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

> Again, thanks for your patience.

no problem (I'd like to find the answer - I don't have regular access to 
Mac OS X)

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