You are correct in that all I did was install ncurses-dev to get past that error. Now it compiles for about 70min (vs 20min) then errors out. (see post from yesterday). PS: Is their another group or list I can post my next set of errors to. I tried several times to try and bypass the errors to get the compile to finish. I know I have to be so close to completion, but I don't know what the issue is. Jeremey Wise (440)-519-6006 Systems Consultant(CNE,MCSE,CSE) Agilysys, Inc. Jeremey.Wise@xxxxxxxxxxxx IBM ED PACK -Part # SB033 $4,500 ... SP Discount 11% IBM ED CARD - Part # SB218 $8,995 ... SP Discount 8.5% -----Original Message----- From: xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:04 PM To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: X 4.3.99.902 Compile error On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:00:29PM -0500, George Socker wrote: > 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. I wasn't clear on two points: the -lncurses switch, which *is* present on the command line in the makefile, should be causing the linker to look for libncurses, *which it clearly is not* from the error message. Secondly, that may be *happening* (I thought) because there is no file name following those switches on the linker command line... but apparently the linker *would* tolerate that (and incidentally, "is generating a misleading error") since all he did was install the missing ncurses-devel package (so far as I know), and the problem went away. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
