After upgrading ncurses, xterm-285 fails to link with ncurses. Same problem happens when enabling ncurses use flag with openrc. During linking of xterm executable, no library ncurses is seen. In the config.log, I saw that a testlink of ncurses failed. This is due to the libraries for ncurses being wrong, pkg-config --libs ncurses gives -lncurses -ltinfo. Whoever in the gcc command line, only -lncurses is given. config.log attached after emerge --info Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update sys-libs/ncurses 2. re-emerge xterm 3. Actual Results: /bin/sh ./plink.sh x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=amdfam10 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Winline -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wextra -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wswitch-enum -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o resize resize.o xstrings.o -lfontconfig -lXft -lXaw3d -lXmu -lXt -lX11 -lXext -lXpm -lSM -lICE -lXt -lX11 -lutempter testing if -lfontconfig is needed ...yes testing if -lXft is needed ...yes testing if -lXaw3d is needed ...yes testing if -lXmu is needed ...yes testing if -lXt is needed ...yes testing if -lX11 is needed ...yes testing if -lXext is needed ...yes testing if -lXpm is needed ...yes testing if -lSM is needed ...yes testing if -lICE is needed ...yes testing if -lXt is needed ...yes testing if -lX11 is needed ...yes testing if -lutempter is needed ...yes resize.o: In function `main': resize.c:(.text.startup+0x127): undefined reference to `tgetent' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [resize] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... * ERROR: x11-terms/xterm-285 failed (compile phase): * emake failed Expected Results: xterm successfully emerged emerge --info: Portage 2.1.11.31 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.4 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.4-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1090T_Processor-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.1.5, 3.2.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 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PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= x11-terms/xterm-285 was built with the following: USE="Xaw3d (multilib) truetype unicode -toolbar" relevant config.log section: configure:5607: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -march=amdfam10 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c -lncurses >&5 /var/tmp/portage/x11-terms/xterm-285/temp/ccWWxK2x.o: In function `main': conftest.c:(.text.startup+0x16): undefined reference to `tgetent' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:5610: $? = 1 configure: program exited with status 1 configure: failed program was: #line 5592 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" /* terminfo implementations ignore the buffer argument, making it useless for * the xterm application, which uses this information to make a new TERMCAP * environment variable. */ int main() { char buffer[1024]; buffer[0] = 0; tgetent(buffer, "vt100"); return (0); } no, there is no termcap/tgetent in ncurses configure:5607: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -march=amdfam10 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c -lcurses >&5 /var/tmp/portage/x11-terms/xterm-285/temp/cc1fi6OK.o: In function `main': conftest.c:(.text.startup+0x16): undefined reference to `tgetent' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:5610: $? = 1 configure: program exited with status 1 configure: failed program was: #line 5592 "configure"
This little bug is causing me grief with all kinds of packages. I have issues building: readline texinfo lame speech-tools vim-core procps All of them build fine if I set: LDFLAGS=" -L/lib -lncurses" emerge foo
Builds fine here. # ncurses5-config --libs -L/usr/lib64 -lncurses
This is the piece of c-code that is used by autoconf: int main() { char buffer[1024]; buffer[0] = 0; tgetent(buffer, "vt100"); return (0); } Autoconf tries to compile with the following cmd-line: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -march=amdfam10 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c -lcurses Resulting in the following error: In function `main': conftest.c:(.text.startup+0x16): undefined reference to `tgetent' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status To successfully compile I need to add -ltinfo. This is where the symbol 'tgetent' is located. Autoconf script doesn't use ncurses5-config and running ncurses5-config gives the following: ncurses5-config --libs -L/usr/lib64 -lncurses -ltinfo This means that adding -ltinfo is needed
Using the output of ncurses5-config and setting LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib64 -lncurses -ltinfo" emerge -v xterm works. A variant to what Travis Hansen suggests.
I think there's a deeper issue here as well. Look at the differnces in filesizes: 15z ~ # ls -l /lib64/libncurses.so.5.9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142816 Jan 17 01:29 /lib64/libncurses.so.5.9 15z ~ # ls -l /usr/lib64/libncurses.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 529 Jan 17 01:29 /usr/lib64/libncurses.so And is it standard procedure to have libs with the same name in different dirs?
CC:'ing ncurses maintainers, maybe they can suggest what is the correct way to address this issue.
(In reply to comment #6) use ncurses' .pc file rather than -lncurses to link. the ncurses ebuild isn't broken here.
As indicated, there is something wrong with the configure script. autoconf tries to check for termcap/curses/ncurses libraries. It does this by testing for each by trying to link the conftest.c file as mentioned after the emerge --info section. This is wrong, autoconf's check for termcap/curses/ncurses is wrong. If it wants to see if libncurses can be used by compiling and linking a test code, that at least for libncurses it must use the proper libraries. This can be done by using pkg-config. If someone tells me that this is not a problem, again try compiling and linking the example code given with the ncurses5.9-r2, than you'll see that the test as preformed by autoconf is _wrong_!
Linking rc from openrc suffers from the same problem. Linking with the ncurses5.9-r2 fails. In mk/termcap.mk:2, if you want to link with this ncurses5.9-r2, you need -lncurses -ltinfo, not just -lncurses. This is not automake, so in the future, it might be easier to use ncurses pkg-config there.
(In reply to comment #9) file new bugs for new issues. this bug is just for xterm.
I think it's time a tracker bug be opened to deal with the packages affected by this issue.
+ 14 Feb 2013; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> xterm-285.ebuild, + xterm-288.ebuild, metadata.xml: + Add Workaround for ncurses[tinfo], #454736; correct HOMEPAGE; improve usage + of EAPI >=4; add missing die +
Thomas, could you please make the buildsystem use pkg-config to detect ncurses libs? And while you are at it, I saw you are still using the long deprecated configure.in instead of .ac naming. This will become a problem with next automake release. A simple rename should do it. Thanks
Do we have a tracker bug yet for all the packages that have this issue?
(In reply to comment #14) Yes, bug 457530 which is already blocked by this bug.
