Re: Error building ncurses.

[Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech dot com>]

On 06/30/2010 12:53 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Ben, All,
>
> On Wednesday 30 June 2010 21:16:36 Ben Greear wrote:
> > cg-ng build
> [--SNIP--]
> > I'm using arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi.  The only changes I made were to
> > disable gcj and Fortran.
> > Host system is 64-bit Fedora 11.
>
> OK.
>
> > The build.log had this at the bottom:
> [--SNIP--]
> > [ALL  ]    x86_64-build_redhat-linux-gnu-gcc ../objects/tic.o ../objects/dump_entry.o  -I../progs -I/home/greearb/tmp/cxt/targets/src/ncurses-5.7/progs
> > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/home/greearb/tmp/cxt/targets/src/ncurses-5.7/progs/../include -I. -I../include  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -O2 --param
> > max-inline-insns-single=1200 -static -L../lib -lncurses -L../lib -lncurses -dynamic  -ldl  -o tic
> > [ALL  ]    /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl
> > [ALL  ]    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > [ERROR]    make[1]: *** [tic] Error 1
> > [ALL  ]    make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/greearb/tmp/cxt/targets/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/build/build-ncurses-build-tic/progs'
> [--SNIP--]
> > As far as I can tell, I have lib dl installed fine:
> > /lib/libdl-2.10.2.so
> > /lib/libdl.so.2
> > /lib64/libdl-2.10.2.so
> > /lib64/libdl.so.2
> > /usr/lib64/libdl.so
>
> Notice the '-static' on the command line? Do you have a libdl.a somewhere?
> On my Debian, libdl is in package libc6-dev. Fedora should have it in a
> similarly named package.

Doesn't that -dynamic before -ldl change it back to use dynamic?

Anyway, glibc-static on Fedora installs some static libs, including libdl.a.

I just installed that and I'm recompiling now.  I'll let you know how that goes.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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