Why whould you want to do this instead of using a symlink?
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi, > > On 27/07/13 20:14, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > > > I'm upgrading the expression for wine to the latest version and > investigating > > some (optional) dependencies wine claims to be missing. > > > > One of these is ncurses. Tracing the configure phase I found that our > > libncurses.so is a text file containing "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > > > > From the ncurses expression this seems to have been done deliberately > and it's > > been there for a long time. On my system, I could not find other > packages that > > use something similar, so I'm wondering what it's for and if it can be > the cause > > for "gcc ... -lncurses" failing in wine's configure. > > It's a directive for the linker to use libncursesw instead of libncurses. > On a > Fedora 13 machine I see these INPUT directives as well, e.g.: > > /usr/lib64/libbfd.so:INPUT ( /usr/lib64/libbfd.a -liberty -lz ) > /usr/lib64/libcurses.so:INPUT(-lncurses) > /usr/lib64/libcursesw.so:INPUT(-lncursesw) > /usr/lib64/libncurses.so:INPUT(libncurses.so.5 -ltinfo) > /usr/lib64/libncursesw.so:INPUT(libncursesw.so.5 -ltinfo) > /usr/lib64/libopcodes.so:INPUT ( /usr/lib64/libopcodes.a -lbfd ) > > etc. > > However, Fedora and Ubuntu don't seem to unify libncurses and libncursesw. > > -- > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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