Re: [bug-gsrc] problem compiling ncurses

[Brandon Invergo]

Hi Carl,

carl <address@hidden> writes:

> In directory "progs" files "tic" "infocmp" and "toe" wouldn't
> link, trying to link to the ncurses lib it just compiled,
> goofy Makefile.

Could you give a bit more information? How did you diagnose the problem?
I've just compiled and installed ncurses without error. I can at least
call those three programs without any arguments just fine, but I didn't
do any in-depth testing. Unfortunately, ncurses doesn't come with any
built-in tests. Did you have to do something more complicated to
encounter the linking problem?  

> anyway , I did 
> touch tic infocmp toe
> then finish compilation, install package, then go back
> rm tic infocmp toe
> remove "cookies" that mentioned installation.
> Then compile those three by adding ncurses lib to command line.
> then reinstall , and it's all done.

Ok thanks. Once we sort out what the problem actually is, I'm going to
have to think about how best to do this; I think we should avoid having
the build scripts remove cookies. We'll probably have to do some
"pre-build" and "post-install" steps.

Thanks,
brandon