Re: xterm fails to link against local ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Christian Ebert wrote:

> * 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?)

You might be able to see the options sent to "ld" by adding a "-v"
to the CFLAGS, and/or something like "-Wl,--verbose" to LDFLAGS.

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