Package: libncurses5-dev Version: 5.9-8 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
Since upgrade from squeeze to wheezy few days ago, "ld" reports that libncurses.so.5 not found. $ gcc -o foo foo.c -lncurses /usr/local/bin/ld: cannot find libncurses.so.5 collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status $ cat foo.c char tgetent (); int main () { return tgetent (); ; return 0; } # ld --version GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 It seems that issue is in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so: # cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so INPUT(libncurses.so.5 -ltinfo) Changing this to full path fixes problem: # cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so INPUT(/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 -ltinfo) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.4.1-vlad-bdver1-05 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libncurses5-dev depends on: ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.13-33 ii libncurses5 5.9-8 ii libtinfo-dev 5.9-8 ii libtinfo5 5.9-8 ii ncurses-bin 5.9-8 libncurses5-dev recommends no packages. Versions of packages libncurses5-dev suggests: pn ncurses-doc <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org