On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Pierre Labastie <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Trying again because I forgot to remove a "SPAM" header added by my silly
> ISP.
> Sorry
> Pierre
>
> On 13/01/2017 10:22, Pierre Labastie wrote:
>
>> On 13/01/2017 09:51, Gordon Findlay wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Thanos Baloukas <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 13/01/2017 09:32 πμ, Gordon Findlay wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi
>>>
>>>         I build (using jhalfs) a SYSV5 system from the SVN of 21/12/16.
>>>
>>>         Tonight I attempted to build another system, using jhalfs
>>>         (trunk, newly
>>>         checked out), and had some trouble.
>>>
>>>         Firstly it required libncurses.so.5, which isn't a part of the
>>>         standard
>>>         build. But building it using the note in LFS Chapt 6.20 fixed
>>>         that.
>>>
>>>         But next jhalfs required libtinfo.so.5
>>>
>>>         (menu/mconf: error while loading shared libraries
>>>         libtinfo.so.5 ... no
>>>         such file).
>>>
>>>         There is no libtinfo.so on the system. Have I missed installing
>>> it
>>>         somewhere? I cannot find it in either LFS or BLFS index.
>>>
>>>         Thanks for any advice
>>>
>>>         Slainte
>>>         Gordon
>>>
>>>
>>>     Did you try to create symlink libtinfo.so.5 -> libncurses.so
>>>
>>>
>>> ​Tried that, but the resulting menu was unusable (using the wrong
>>> character set​) whereas menuconfig for the kernel works fine.
>>>
>>
>> It looks like you have a version of mconf compiled against
>> lib{ncurses,tinfo}.so.5, and somehow, those librairies were replaced by the
>> .6 ones at some point. I'd suggest recompiling mconf:
>> make -C menu clean && make
>>
>> Regards
>> Pierre
>
>
​Thanks Pierre

I removed libncurses.so.5 , then make -C menu clean && make ​worked.

How I got the version of mconf compiled against the .5 libraries is a
mystery: I thought all I did was a completely fresh checkout.

Slainte
Gordon
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