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

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