----- Original Message ----- | From: "Chris Green" <c...@isbd.net> | To: "Vile mailing list" <vile@nongnu.org> | Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 6:42:39 PM | Subject: Re: Build errors at link time - what am I missing?
| On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 06:32:59PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: |> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 08:26:07PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: |> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 08:20:53PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: |> > > I'm trying to build vile-9.8 on a Debian system where I have a shared |> > > hosting account with ssh access. |> > > |> > > I'm doing "./configure --prefix=$HOME" and it runs OK but there are |> > > couple of warnings. |> > > |> > > Firstly it can't find a good lex so it says:- |> > > configure: WARNING: disabling build for lex-filters |> > > I don't think this is going to be an issue. |> > > |> > > However, later on in configure I get:- |> > > configure: WARNING: Cannot find -ltermlib, -lcurses, or -ltermcap |> > > and then at link time there are loads of undefined references to |> > > tputs, tgoto, and a lot of other txxxxx symbols. |> > > |> > > So presumably I need to build one of those libraries, or is there |> > > something simpler I can do? |> > > |> > The system does have libncurses, it's in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. Is |> > it possible that directory isn't on the cc/linker search path? How do |> > I add it? |> |> You need the development package. The runtime package has a similarly named |> library file. |> |> For example (Debian/oldstable) |> |> libtinfo6 has |> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtic.so.6 |> |> libncurses-dev hs |> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so |> |> The plain ".so" is what development packages link with, e.g., -ltinfo |> | There's some .so files buried deep down:- | | chrisisbd@caracal:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/zsh/5.7.1$ cd zsh | chrisisbd@caracal:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/zsh/5.7.1/zsh$ ls | attr.so complist.so example.so nearcolor.so pcre.so system.so | zleparameter.so | cap.so computil.so files.so net regex.so termcap.so | zprof.so | clone.so curses.so langinfo.so newuser.so rlimits.so terminfo.so | zpty.so | compctl.so datetime.so mapfile.so param sched.so zftp.so | zselect.so | complete.so deltochar.so mathfunc.so parameter.so stat.so zle.so | zutil.so | | Will these allow me to build if I include that directory in the ld search path? | If so, how do I include that directory? | | If not then I guess I'll have to build ncurses as desribed in the E-Mail before. Brendan's advice is the way to go. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
