On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Jon Schipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Should libcurses.so point to libncurses.so? I'm assuming no but am not sure.

Actually not, it has to be libncurses.so.

> I tried the following links on the server system:
> ln -s /lib/$ARCH/libncurses.so.5.9 /usr/lib/$ARCH/libncurses.so
> ln -s /lib/$ARCH/libcurses.so.5.9 /usr/lib/$ARCH/libncurses.so
> Which populated the CMakeCache.txt file with the file paths for
> CURSES_CURSES_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/$ARCH/libcurses.so
> and
> CURSES_NCURSES_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/$ARCH/libncurses.so
> They were listed as NOT_FOUND before I added the links. Though, cmake
> is still unable
> to detect the library.
>
> I did a find / -type f -name libcurses* on both systems and noticed that:
> Ubuntu Server _doesn't_ have libcurses.so
> Ubuntu Desktop _does_ have libcurses.so
>
> On the Desktop system which has libcurses.so I made a symlink like you
> mentioned:
> /usr/lib# ls -l libcurses*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Oct  8 18:09 libcurses.so ->
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurses.so
>
> I tried other combinations and am still unable to compile.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Jon
>
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Jon Schipp <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> More Info for the Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 system.
>>>
>>> The below file doesn't exist. I don't know if this has anything to do
>>> with it since it is libcurses rather than
>>> libNcurses.
>>>
>>> # grep -R CURSES_LIBRARY *
>>> build/CMakeCache.txt:CURSES_CURSES_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurses.so
>>>  apt-cache search libcurses doesn't provide anything except a few perl 
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> # apt-cache search libcurses
>>> libruby - Transitional package for libruby1.8
>>> libruby1.8 - Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8
>>> libcurses-ocaml - OCaml bindings for the ncurses library
>>> libcurses-ocaml-dev - OCaml bindings for the ncurses library
>>> libcurses-perl - Curses interface for Perl
>>> libcurses-ui-perl - curses-based OO user interface framework for Perl
>>> libcurses-widgets-perl - Curses widget interface for Perl
>>>
>>> # ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses*
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 294004 Nov 18  2011
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.a
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157584 Nov 18  2011
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses++.a
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     31 Nov 18  2011
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157584 Nov 18  2011
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses++w.a
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 390674 Nov 18  2011
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.a
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     32 Nov 18  2011
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so
>>>
>>> # ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurses*
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 18  2011
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurses.a -> libncurses.a
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 18  2011
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurses.so -> libncurses.so
>>>
>>> # ls -l /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses*
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 Oct  5 10:06
>>> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.9
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133808 Nov 18  2011
>>> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5.9
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Oct  5 10:06
>>> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.9
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183072 Nov 18  2011
>>> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5.9
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Jon Schipp <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm having a little trouble with the libncurses dependency on Ubuntu
>>>> Desktop 12.04 and Ubuntu Server 12.04.
>>>> It looks like libncurses5 is already installed by default. I went
>>>> ahead and installed the dev package: libncurses5-dev
>>>>
>>>> $ dpkg -l | grep libncurses
>>>> ii  libncurses5                            5.9-4
>>>>             shared libraries for terminal handling
>>>> ii  libncurses5-dev                        5.9-4
>>>>             developer's libraries for ncurses
>>>> ii  libncursesw5                           5.9-4
>>>>             shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character
>>>> support
>>>>
>>>> These are the only libncurses libraries in the repo. I tried
>>>> installing the libncursesw5-dev package too.
>>>>
>>>> # apt-cache search libncurses
>>>> libncurses5 - shared libraries for terminal handling
>>>> libncurses5-dbg - debugging/profiling libraries for ncurses
>>>> libncurses5-dev - developer's libraries for ncurses
>>>> libncursesw5 - shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character 
>>>> support)
>>>> libncursesw5-dbg - debugging/profiling libraries for ncursesw
>>>> libncursesw5-dev - developer's libraries for ncursesw
>>>> centerim-utf8 - A text-mode multi-protocol instant messenger client
>>>> libncurses-gst - Ncurses bindings for GNU Smalltalk
>>>> libncurses-ruby - Transitional package for ruby-ncurses
>>>> libncurses-ruby1.8 - Transitional package for ruby-ncurses
>>>> libncurses-ruby1.9 - Transitional package for ruby-ncurses
>>>> libncurses-ruby1.9.1 - Transitional package for ruby-ncurses
>>>> libncursesada-dbg - Ada binding to the ncurses text interface library:
>>>> debug symbols
>>>> libncursesada-doc - Ada binding to the ncurses text interface library:
>>>> documentation
>>>> libncursesada2 - Ada binding to the ncurses text interface library:
>>>> shared library
>>>> libncursesada2-dev - Ada binding to the ncurses text interface
>>>> library: development
>>>> ruby-ncurses - ruby extension for the ncurses C library
>>>>
>>>> Using cmake I still get:
>>>>
>>>> -- Could NOT find Curses (missing:  CURSES_LIBRARY CURSES_INCLUDE_PATH)
>>>> libncurses is missing on target. Skipping ifpps build.
>>>> -- Could NOT find Curses (missing:  CURSES_LIBRARY CURSES_INCLUDE_PATH)
>>>> libncurses is missing on target. Skipping flowtop build.
>>>>
>>>> I've never had this problem before. I haven't been able to solve it
>>>> yet. Any tips?
>>
>> Hmm, the usual cmake pain. For libncurses, we use the buit-in cmake
>> modul to fin it. Can you try to create a symlink to
>> /usr/lib/libcurses.so that points to your actual path?
>>
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