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
>
>
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