On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:04:36PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-06-06 18:09 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 11:08:18PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2018-06-06 16:09 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 07:39:42PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> >> On 2018-06-05 21:43 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> > ... > >> >> >> | > >> >> >> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/7/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): > >> >> >> In function `mouse_activate': > >> >> >> | (.text+0x1032): undefined reference to `gpm_fd' > >> >> >> | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > > > > hmm - my recollection of this was that I'd gotten it to fail silently > > when dlsym is used. > > > >> > Given the report, I'd expect something amiss in the configure script > >> > to handle the case where I'd like libdl to load gpm (but don't know > >> > why that would be related to wattr macros...) > >> > >> Actually the static libraries in the Debian package are configured > >> --without-dlsym because of #556378[1]. > > > > Perhaps we could revisit that -- I'll investigate anyway.
I'd forgotten about the warning at that moment... > The change in the 20180609 patchlevel > > ,---- > | + modify generatesd ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc., > | to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking > `---- > > looks correct to me (apart from the small typo: s/generatesd/generated). :-( > Nevertheless, if I stop building the static libraries separately, > there is this infamous complaint about dlopen() when I link a program > statically: yes - even if I could make effective use of dlvsym, I wouldn't do that because of this warning nuisance... > ,---- > | …/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): In function `load_gpm_library': > | …/lib_mouse.c:488: warning: Using 'dlopen' in statically linked > applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version > used for linking > `---- > > I don't see a completely satisfactory way out of that, maybe the least of > the evils is to configure the static libraries --without-gpm. odds are that people who really want to link statically will be attempting to use it on the Linux console, and will complain :-) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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