Bug 498814

Summary:	app-editors/xemacs-21.5.34 with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo] - ld: cm.o: undefined reference to symbol 'tgoto'
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Seong-ho Cho <darkcircle.0426>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	XEmacs team <xemacs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	457530
Attachments:	info_xemacs-21.5.34.log build_xemacs-21.5.34.log

Description Seong-ho Cho 2014-01-21 17:20:16 UTC

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cm.o: undefined reference to symbol 'tgoto'
/lib64/libtinfo.so.5: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
GNUmakefile:139: recipe for target 'xemacs' failed

Comment 1 Seong-ho Cho 2014-01-21 17:23:19 UTC

Created attachment 368358 [details]
info_xemacs-21.5.34.log

Comment 2 Seong-ho Cho 2014-01-21 17:24:20 UTC

Created attachment 368360 [details]
build_xemacs-21.5.34.log

Comment 3 Mats Lidell gentoo-dev

2014-01-22 23:29:21 UTC

This sounds as a problem with ncurses built with use flag tinfo causing two separate libraries to be created. The workaround is not to build ncurses with that use flag (but of course other packages might require it.) See bug 494518 with some discussion about it.

Odd enough I have earlier tried to recreate this problem but with no luck. I will  give it another try.

Comment 4 Mats Lidell gentoo-dev

2014-01-23 07:31:37 UTC

I was able to recreate the problem by rebuilding ncurses with the use flag tinfo set.

Comment 5 Mats Lidell gentoo-dev

2014-02-03 19:20:09 UTC

A new ebuild xemacs-21.5.34-r1 is available that fixes the problem. 

Since ncurses is required by xemacs-21.5 in gentoo the patch lets configure find what libs to link with using pkg-config.

Comment 6 Mats Lidell gentoo-dev

2014-08-01 20:13:34 UTC

Fixed in xemacs-21.5.34-r1.