Hi, On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:11:25PM +0100, Clemens Gruber wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 02:39:19PM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 07:09:23PM +0200, Clemens Gruber wrote: > > > when building PTXdist 2017.10.0 on current ArchLinux, a linker error > > > occurs: > > > /usr/bin/ld: lxdialog/checklist.o: undefined reference to symbol 'acs_map' > > > /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from commandline > > > > > > This occured after ArchLinux updated binutils to 2.29.1-1 and ncurses to > > > 6.0+20170902-2. > > > > Strange. I have binutils 2.29.1-6 and ncurses 6.0+20170902-1 here on Debian > > and it works just fine :-/. But: > > > > $ cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so > > INPUT(libncurses.so.5 -ltinfo) > > > > I guess this is different for you... > > Yes: > $ cat /usr/lib/libncurses.so > INPUT(-lncursesw) > > > > > > I could work around it by adding -ltinfo to LDFLAGS in the PTXdist > > > Makefile. > > > > We have some complex stuff in configure.ac to detect the curses library. > > Maybe we should just require ncurses and use pkg-config. > > Yes, pkg-config would have caught it: > $ pkg-config --libs ncurses > -lncursesw -ltinfo > > I noticed in the meantime, that the package maintainer made a commit, which > fixes the problem too: > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/?h=packages/ncurses&id=987faeb8442d44e76a7a58642e8e6432eb220c25
Ok, so it's no longer urgent. I still think we don't need to support anything other than ncurses here, so I'd be happy to take a patch that cleans this up and uses pkg-config. Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de