booleandomain wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to compile bash-4.0 with gcc-4.4.0. > > Bash was configured with the following options: --prefix=/tools > --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > > Please notice I have set CFLAGS environment variable to: -O2 -march=core2 > -Wl,--dynamic-linker=/tools/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 > > Of course I have glibc installed in /tools. > > Well, bash get configured and compiled fine, but then if I issue ldd bash I get > the following: > > linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffcb3ff000) > libncurses.so.5 => not found > libdl.so.2 => /tools/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f14c2e65000) > libc.so.6 => /tools/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f14c2b0d000) > /tools/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f14c3069000) > > I have not installed ncurses in /tools. If I install it before attempting to > compile bash, the problem is fixed. > > But I wonder why gcc does not complain at build-time... I can't check every > compiled executable/library with ldd before installing it. > Because it found the library somewhere else ... I suppose in /lib or in /usr/lib. If you want to to get compile-time errors, you could use the following CFLAGS CFLAGS='<your_options> -nostdlib -L/toosl/lib' The compilation will then fail because the ncurses library is not found > > Thanks. > > >