On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:11 AM, David Adam <zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2014, SanskritFritz wrote: >> Could you please have a look here: >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39236#comment120328 >> "fish explicitly links to ncurses and gcc-libs (see readelf -d output) >> and as shown by FS#35458 , it also needs hostname from inetutils >> package." > > I've edited the README to explicitly state that you require ncurses > headers & libraries to compile and ncurses libraries to run.
I see, thanks. > AFAIK, fish will link to gcc-libs if you compile it with GCC. There is no > specific dependency in the fish code. Of course, there is no need to mention this in a package dependencies list. > With regard to `hostname`(1), I'm surprised we need to explicitly note > dependencies on NET-3 tools. It's been around since 4.2BSD (1983!). It's > an essential package in Debian and RHEL. It's in the base system on > Cygwin, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris and default Busybox. Well, in archlinux there is an inetutils package which is not part of the basic install. Nevermind. Thank you for your thorough answers, now we can package fish rest assured :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
