On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 10:01:49AM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > > Problems during make check building captoinfo following (log attached). > > It appears that libtool is not processing lib...la rather passing those > arguments directly to gcc, possibly because of (non-standard relative) > directory prefix rather than la path search? > > Now we have for many years set LIBRARIES thus with no issues: > > sed -i -e 's%^\(LIBRARIES[ \t]*=\).*$%\1 ../lib/libncursesw.la > ../lib/libticw.la%' ncurses/Makefile
I hadn't noticed that one. It's unfortunate that the msys2 people decided to pretend they're cygwin, since there are a lot of differences. > Also make is being run with DESTDIR="" RPATH="/usr/lib" although DESTDIR is > always set to DESTDIR=$PWD/../inst relative to the build dir: but in this > case hopefully /usr/lib/ is not actually being updated for any reason, as > Cygwin can not emulate privilege? Cygwin doesn't (though one's /usr/lib might have been chmod'd) For the "make check", I suppose that ensuring that failures are reported but not breaking the build would be useful to both of us (I mainly look for differences in the logs) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
