On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:06:37AM -0500, Wise, Jeremey wrote: > gcc -m32 -o resize -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -fno-strict-aliasing -ansi > -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes > -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls > -Wnested-externs -Wundef -L../../exports/lib resize.o > xstrings.o -lncurses -Wl,-rpath-link,../../exports/lib > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: > cannot find -lncurses
Normal ordinary C compilation eror -- I'm not an X Guy, and I can tell you how to fix it. The compile is trying to build resize, and wants the ncurses library... which I can't imagine *isn't* on your machine *somewhere*... but clearly, it's not on the search path that GCC is looking in. Locate (or install) it, and then either symlink it into a useful place, or modify the makefile. (Actually, that might be the *imake*file; this is where you got into "needs to be an Xguy" territory. I think you're gonna find out you don't have it installed, as difficult as that is to fathom -- so *much* stuff uses curses. On second look, that error from ld seems wrong, too; it shouldn't be looking for "-lncurses", it should be looking for "libncurses". I'm wondering if that's a thinko in the makefile -- perhaps the .o files should be at the end; there isn't anything else after xstrings.o, which may be confusing getargs in gcc. Noting that you're in the beta, I'm leaning towards this; I suspect someone hosed the makefile. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
