On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libncurses5-dev   resp.
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libncurses5

The same thing, for sure, has to exist on Ubuntu, but I cannot tell
what name it has there in particular, since I'm not using it.

>> 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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