Just for the record aalib now builds fine for Steve, the problem seems to be it was linking to a older version of aalib during building, and it doesn't require libslang as those symbols are also defined in aalib.
Matt On Monday, Sep 30, 2002, at 08:37 Derek Homeier wrote: > On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 12:32 AM, Joel Hacker wrote: > >> >> On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 01:37 AM, Steve Wall wrote: >>> Can't speak for Joel but I don't have Norton SystemWorks installed >>> and I can't >>> get aalib to compile either. I posted about this on the 18th >>> (Subject: aalib Update >>> for 10.2 Fails) and got no response. I just did a "fink >>> selfupdate-cvs" and tried >>> again and it still won't compile. Errors are identical to what I >>> saw the last time. >>> >>> Anyone got any clues? If I am interpreting the description of aalib >>> correctly it is >>> an ascii-art library and it can't be that critical to GIMP. So I >>> should be able >>> to copy the .info file in my local finkinfo directory tree and >>> remove the dependency >>> without breaking GIMP too much, right? >>> >>> Steve Wall >>> >> >> I finally got Gimp and aalib to install (and all the parts of KDE >> that I wanted, namely the base and Koffice and KDEgames, don't need >> the whole bundle). As far as I can tell it isn't the whole >> SystemWorks suite that is causing the prob but Anti-virus >> auto-protect specifically. Try turning off any and all unnecessary >> background processes first. Anti-virus, fax listeners, special >> hardware drivers that "listen" for events like mouse drivers, etc. >> Then make note of everything that you turned off and try again. For >> those things with no gui option to turn them off you can either use >> top to get their process id's and then sudo kill (process id #) or >> use the Process Viewer application to kill them. Some of them may >> require you to log in as root to kill them via Process Viewer. Be >> careful what you kill though, you could crash you system, but it >> isn't likely that you could do any lasting damage. >> > That probably wouldn't help much as he said he is not using any Norton > tools in the first place :-). Moreover, Steve's problem is a simple > linker error, no crashing patch or kernel panics, if I read him > correctly. > Steve, the symbols ld is missing in your installation belong to > libslang, not to ncurses, so I'd suggest to check if slang is > installed, and possibly rebuilt under 10.2. It seems it did not > include -lslang in the linker commands at all, though it obviously > included the slang headers, so something must have gone wrong there. > If in doubt just try to rebuild slang, the 10.2 updater might not > always detect which packages need to be recompiled. > > HTH, > Derek > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users