Bug 359205 – sys-libs/ncurses fails to install on multilib mips

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matt Turner 2011-03-16 18:54:27 UTC]

Created attachment 266161 [details]
ncurses 5.7-r7 build log

sys-libs/ncurses fails to isntall on multilib mips. Relevant snipped from build log is

make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.8/work/widec/c++'
 * ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.8 failed:
 *   unable to read SONAME from libncurses.so
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line   56:  Called src_install
 *   environment, line 2707:  Called gen_usr_ldscript '-a' 'ncurses'
 *   environment, line 1607:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                       [[ -z ${tlib} ]] && die "unable to read SONAME from ${lib}";

[Comment 1 Matt Turner 2011-03-16 18:56:17 UTC]

Created attachment 266163 [details]
ncurses 5.8 build log

Oh, meant to say that I thought that it could be related to bug 276465.

[Comment 2 Matt Turner 2011-03-16 19:00:36 UTC]

Looking in ncurses-5.8/image shows that all libraries are being installed to lib instead of lib32.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2011-03-17 04:11:33 UTC]

your configure line is missing --libdir.  that is added by the call to portage's econf.  find out why that isnt being added.

[Comment 4 Matt Turner 2011-06-07 19:31:43 UTC]

This was caused by not explicitly setting ABI= in the mips profile.

Closing.