Re: Solaris and undefined symbol exit_curses

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 3:59 AM Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 06:11:32AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > I'm trying to build Ncurses 6.3 on Solaris 11 i86pc. Make is failing:
>
> ...and before that, the developer fails to provide information on how they
> have attempted to configure the program, and what the configure script
> actually does with the commands.

config.log was provided.

> > $ make 2>&1 | fold -w 80
> > ( cd man && make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/local/lib" all )
> > ( cd include && make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/local/lib" all )
> > ( cd ncurses && make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/local/lib" all )
> > ( cd progs && make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/local/lib" all )
> > ( cd panel && make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/local/lib" all )
> > ( cd menu && make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/local/lib" all )
> > ( cd form && make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/local/lib" all )
> > ( cd test && make DESTDIR="" RPATH_LIST="/usr/local/lib" all )
> > /bin/gcc -g2 -O2 -m64 -march=native -fPIC -pthread -o back_ground 
> > ../obj_s/back_
> > ground.o ../obj_s/dump_window.o -R 
> > /export/home/jwalton/Build-Scripts/ncurses-6.
> > 3/lib:/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -m64 -Wl,-R,'$ORIGIN/../lib' 
> > -Wl,-R,/usr/l
> > ocal/lib -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,origin -I. -I. -I../test -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
> > -DDATA_DIR=\
> > "/usr/local/share\" -I. -I../include -I/usr/local/include -DNDEBUG 
> > -D__EXTENSION
> > S__ -DNDEBUG -g2 -O2 -m64 -march=native -fPIC -pthread -fPIC `echo 
> > "-L../lib -lf
> > ormw -lmenuw -lpanelw -lncursesw -ldl -lpthread" | sed -e 
> > 's/-lform.*-lpanel[^ ]
> > *//'`
> > Undefined                       first referenced
> > symbol                             in file
> > exit_curses                         ../obj_s/back_ground.o
>
> ...which just tells us that the linkage didn't work.

Yep, looks like a linker error.

Jeff