Re: xterm fails to link against local ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Christian Ebert wrote:

> * Thomas Dickey on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 11:46:46 -0500
> > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Christian Ebert wrote:
> > > I'm running the most recent ncurses(w). I am building xterm
> > > (267), but do not succeed in linking it against ncurses under
> > > /usr/local. It always links against ncurses under /sw.
> > >
> > > There are 3 ncurses on my machine (MacOS 10.5.8):
> > >
> > > /usr - Apple shipped
> > > /sw  - mandatory package for Fink distribution
> > > /usr/local
> >
> > I'm assuming you tried LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
>
> Yes. All kinds of combinations. For CFLAGS as well.
>
> configure even spits out:
>
> checking for private terminfo-directory... /usr/local/share/terminfo
>
> > perhaps this configure option would help (in configuring xterm):
> >
> >  --disable-rpath-hack    don't add rpath options for additional libraries
>
> no joy, unfortunately.
>
> > (for one set of users or another, I've added in the configure scripts
> > checks to try to find where a library is, and use it at runtime -
> > occasionally that choice isn't what people want)

hmm (looking at the special options used in ncurses for darwin) perhaps

LDFLAGS=-Wl,-search_paths_first

would help - see for example

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg18032.html

> I always get:
>
> $ otool -L `which xterm` | grep ncurses
>         /sw/lib/ncurses/libncurses.5.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, 
> current version 5.0.0)
>
> For comparison:
>
> $ otool -L `which mutt` | grep ncurses
>         /usr/local/lib/libncursesw.5.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, 
> current version 5.0.0)
>
>
> Thank you for looking into this.
>
> c
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