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Bug 669488 - sys-devel/gdb: gdb needs sys-libs/ncurses to be built with unicode USE flag
Summary: sys-devel/gdb: gdb needs sys-libs/ncurses to be built with unicode USE flag
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 669096
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers
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Reported: 2018-10-24 09:57 UTC by Thibaut Sautereau
Modified: 2019-11-19 23:30 UTC (History)
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0001-sys-libs-readline-allow-linking-to-ncursesw-tinfow-w.patch (0001-sys-libs-readline-allow-linking-to-ncursesw-tinfow-w.patch,1.83 KB, patch)
2019-10-13 10:39 UTC, Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) 		Details | Diff
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Description Thibaut Sautereau 2018-10-24 09:57:33 UTC 
gdb links against both libncurses.so and libncursesw.so, but the generation of the latter by sys-libs/ncurses is tied to the "unicode" USE flag. Thus, when using a profile disabling unicode support, gdb fails to execute due to missing libncursesw.so library.

I think that "[unicode]" should be appended to the ncurses line in gdb's RDEPEND in order to force-enable this USE flag for sys-libs/ncurses.
Comment 1 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-10-13 10:39:43 UTC 
Created attachment 592638 [details, diff]
0001-sys-libs-readline-allow-linking-to-ncursesw-tinfow-w.patch
Comment 2 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-10-13 10:41:53 UTC 
Comment on attachment 592638 [details, diff]
0001-sys-libs-readline-allow-linking-to-ncursesw-tinfow-w.patch

Sorry, wrong bug.
Comment 3 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-10-13 10:44:27 UTC 
gdb should not link to libncurses directly is libncursesw is available. You can check it by running 'lddtree /usr/bin/gdb'. If some library dependency doe it then it should be fixed. Typical offender is readline: #669214.
Comment 4 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-11-19 23:30:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 669096 ***