On 10/08/2011 07:56 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> On 2011-10-08 16:14 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>>> Package: libncurses5-dev
>>> Version: 5.9-2
>>> Severity: serious
>>> X-Debbugs-CC: Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org>
>>>
>>> Static linking with -lncurses fails if you need symbols from libtinfo:
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | $ cat foo.c
>>> | #include <term.h>
>>> | #include <stdlib.h>
>>> |
>>> | int main(void)
>>> | {
>>> | return tgetent(NULL, "");
>>> | }
>>> | $ LANG=C gcc foo.c -lncurses -static
>>> | /tmp/ccRe0RW2.o: In function `main':
>>> | foo.c:(.text+0x19): undefined reference to `tgetent'
>>> | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> `----
>>>
>>> This makes zsh and possibly a few other packages FTBFS.
>>
>> So maybe we need to "append" each libtinfo.a to libncurses{,w}.a, like
>> this:
>>
>> ar xo libtinfo.a && ar sr libncurses.a *.o && rm -f *.o
>>
>> Any less ugly ideas?
>
> If zsh used pkg-config, it could use today's update (ncurses patch)
>
> pkg-config --static --libs ncurses
>
> That's one path forward...
>
> But most of your FTBFS's will be only looking for "-lncurses", not
> supposing that tgetent would be in another library.
I like the idea of fixing pkg-config, and making the "few" packages to use it.
Do you have an idea how many packages are affected?
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