Re: X 4.3.99.902 Compile error

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



You need libncurses-dev.

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:06:37AM -0500, Wise, Jeremey wrote:


gcc -m32 -o resize -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -fno-strict-aliasing -ansi
-pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls
-Wnested-externs -Wundef -L../../exports/lib resize.o
xstrings.o -lncurses -Wl,-rpath-link,../../exports/lib
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld:
cannot find -lncurses



Normal ordinary C compilation eror -- I'm not an X Guy, and I can tell you how to fix it.

The compile is trying to build resize, and wants the ncurses
library... which I can't imagine *isn't* on your machine *somewhere*...
but clearly, it's not on the search path that GCC is looking in.

Locate (or install) it, and then either symlink it into a useful place,
or modify the makefile.  (Actually, that might be the *imake*file; this
is where you got into "needs to be an Xguy" territory.

I think you're gonna find out you don't have it installed, as difficult
as that is to fathom -- so *much* stuff uses curses.

On second look, that error from ld seems wrong, too; it shouldn't be
looking for "-lncurses", it should be looking for "libncurses".  I'm
wondering if that's a thinko in the makefile -- perhaps the .o files
should be at the end; there isn't anything else after xstrings.o, which
may be confusing getargs in gcc.

Noting that you're in the beta, I'm leaning towards this; I suspect
someone hosed the makefile.

Cheers,
-- jra



_______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

[Index of Archives]     [X Forum]     [Xorg]     [XFree86 Newbie]     [IETF Announce]     [Security]     [Font Config]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Kernel]

  Powered by Linux