On 25/02/13 21:53, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Justin, All, > > On Monday 25 February 2013 Justin wrote: >> On 25.02.2013 19:30, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >>> On Sunday 24 February 2013 Justin wrote: >>>> when ncurses is build with --with-termlib several symbols are moved to a >>>> seperate terminfo library (libtinfo.so). Current Kernel buildsystem >>>> results in a build error with menuconfig and nconfig dialogs. >>> >>> Do you know of a distribution where this is the case, so I can test? >> >> This is using Gentoo Linux testing with ld.gold. But I assume you will >> get the same result using any distro with gold. > > No, I meant a distro where ncurses is built with --with-termlib. > On my Debian stable (squeeze), libtinfo does not exist at all, > so I can not test linking against it: > > $ apt-file search libtinfo > (zilch) > > But I'll see at installing a Gentoo (if that's not too complex) in a > VM to do the checks (can you confirm that Gentoo by default configures > ncurses with --with-termlib ?). > > Regards, > Yann E. MORIN. > I can be build optionally (mostly for binary package compatibility reasons) with --with-termlib. I will send a step-by-step instruction how to test this with our live cd later today. Thanks, Justin
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