Bug 558230

Summary:	sci-geosciences/grass-6.4.2 with sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r4[tinfo]: undefined reference to symbol 'raw'
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sam Jorna (wraeth) <wraeth>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	proxy-maint, sci-geosciences
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	457530

Description Martin von Gagern 2015-08-20 08:40:29 UTC

Trying to build sci-geosciences/grass-6.4.2 on a system where sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r4 is installed with USE=tinfo, I see (among other problems, namely those addressed in bug #558226) the following:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: OBJ.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/curses.o: undefined reference to symbol 'raw'
/lib64/libtinfo.so.5: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I'm not sure what made me add that USE setting in the first place, might be I can simply remove that flag and recompile everything which depends on libtinfo. However, if that were to be the official solution, then grass should depend on curses[-tinfo], I think. Otherwise, someone would have to have a closer look at the way CURSESLIB is set in configure.

I notice that the latest stable release, Grass 7.0.0, doesn't seem to mention curses in its configure.in except in a comment. I can't see any handling for libtinfo in the 6.4 release branch, so this probably hasn't been dealt with upstream. Not sure whether this is worth reporting, since it's probably gone in the latest release.

Comment 1 Sam Jorna (wraeth) gentoo-dev

2015-10-19 11:24:11 UTC

Closing as OBSOLETE - sci-geosciences/grass-7.0.1 has been added to the tree as per bug 514514 and subsequently revbumped. Note that sci-geosciences/grass:6 has been masked and will be removed from the tree in the coming weeks.