Re: Unable to build ncurses 5.7 on Fedora 13

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, John P. Hartmann wrote:

> This is the package I installed.  I tried a few things with it at random.
>
> vttest.i686                 20071216-5.fc12

that's a little old - I might have fixed that.  It sounds as if there's
some indexing operation right before the prompt to end the screen.

For my own work, I've been making rpms - for Fedora12 I've only got a 
64-bit one though...

> The error was that in some cases (and I could not figure out why) the
> update of the last row of the screen would be cause the contents of
> the window to scroll one line.
>
> Control-D fixed it, whatever it was.
>
>   j.
>
> On 22 October 2010 22:22, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, John P. Hartmann wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, but I got past the reason I wanted to build it (vttest leaving
> > > xterm in a bad state that confused ncurses).  I'd like to know what is
> > > the cause, of course, but I'm sure you have more important things on
> > > your plate.
> >
> > oh.  which version of vttest was that?  (and test-screen).
> >
> > I seem to recall this fixed something with that type of symptom:
> >
> > 20100528
> >        + correct check of fflush return code, which interfered with demo of
> >          xterm window-modification controls.
> >
> >
> > >  j.
> > >
> > > On 22 October 2010 12:55, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, John P. Hartmann wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I took it straight out of the box: ./configure ; make.
> > > > >
> > > > > The rum thing is that there is no -lc on the command line.
> > > >
> > > > Usually I build shared libraries for Linux (along with static), so tic
> > > > would be linked with a shared library.  The rules are a little different
> > > > for ld in that case.  (Adding -lc is however usually unnecessary).
> > > >
> > > > I can investigate this more, this evening...
> > > >
> > > > >  j.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 22 October 2010 12:49, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:02:52AM +0200, John P. Hartmann wrote:
> > > > > > > gcc ../objects/tic.o ../objects/dump_entry.o  -I../progs -I.
> > > > > > > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> > > > > > >  -DNDEBUG -O2 --param max-inline-insns-single=1200 -static -L../lib
> > > > > > > -lncurses -L../lib -lncurses -dynamic   -o tic
> > > > > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've not seen this for Linux, but recall some other systems (Solaris,
> > > > > > iirc),
> > > > > > where ld gets confused by the switch between dynamic/static.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > fwiw, I've built ncurses 5.7 + current patches with Fedora13.
> > > > > > Perhaps knowing the configure options you're using would help.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > > > > > make[1]: *** [tic] Error 1
> > > > > > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ncurses-5.7/progs'
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 Jul  6 15:30 /usr/lib/libc.so
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I've built other packages from source without problems.  Is it a
> > > > > > > versioning problem?  [I did read INSTALL.]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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> > Thomas E. Dickey
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