Re: Building emacs using the `spksrc` toolchain results in `./temacs: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`

[Tim Visher]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:53 AM Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 15 August 2018 at 08:46, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "Does your libncurses only operate on the target?" I'm unsure what to
> even
> > Google for to answer this question intelligently. Can you give me some
> > pointers?
>
> Sorry, that didn't come out clearly. What I mean is, how far apart are
> your build and target machines (with respect to CPU and OS)? Can you
> execute a binary built for the target on your build machine (that's
> what the Emacs build system does)?
>
> If you can, then it might just be a matter of putting the spksrc
> libncurses directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (LDFLAGS only tells the linker
> where to look, it doesn't affect the runtime).
>

Ah I get it then. :)

I'm not sure whether I can or not but I can certainly try and will do so
soon. Thanks so much for your input!