Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Bill Bennett wrote:
I'm gunshy of using other than rpm to install an application,
so I went searching for an elvis.rpm---found it at the elvis/pub
site and ftp'd it:
elvis-2.2f-3.i686.rpm
Does the site tell you how they built that RPM?
I had a bit of a look for this RPM, and the only match I
could find was from a Polish Linux distro PLC Linux.
I grabbed the SRPM, quickly hacked it to work under FC3 and
send Bill the resulting SRPM for rebuilding on his FC2 system.
From the linker line in in the .spec file I suspect that
libtinfo is part of the ncurses package. I downloaded the
ncurses source .tar.gz and found this installation option:
--with-termlib
When building the ncurses library, organize this
as two parts: the curses library (libncurses)
and the low-level terminfo library (libtinfo).
This is done to accommodate applications that use
only the latter. The terminfo library is about
half the size of the total.
So it's a fair assumption that PLC Linux uses this option
when building the ncurses RPM and Fedora Core does not.
I haven't checked if the runtime dependencies on terminfo files,
locking, etc would allow another libncurses compiled without
--with-termlib and libtinfo to coexist. Frankly, rebuilding
from source against the FC2 ncurses seems less work.
Cheers,
Glen
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