On Tuesday, January 06 2004 12:38 pm, JD Ross wrote: > 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. > > > > > >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. > > Actually, it should be "-lncurses". The linker automatically turns given library names into "libxxx.so". If you use "-llibncurses", the linker will look for "liblibncurses.so" and will fail. > > > >Cheers, > >-- jra > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
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