Bug 1890 – edb-1.0.2-r1.ebuild can't find libncurses during compile

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chris Piro 2002-04-17 20:56:18 UTC]

When compiling edb (tools/edb_vt_ed specifically), gcc complains about
unresolved symbols that should be provided by libncurses.  It's not looking in
/lib.  The attached patch is a quick fix (but I don't think its the solution).

Chris

Sorry I haven't included any error output from the compiler; I remerged w/ the
patched source and my term's buffer isn't long enough.

[Comment 1 Chris Piro 2002-04-17 20:57:31 UTC]

Created attachment 598 [details, diff]
quick fix to get tools/edb_vt_ed to find /lib/libncurses* (edb-1.0.2-r1.ebuild)

[Comment 2 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-04-21 20:14:34 UTC]

Question, did you mayhap use gcc3 ?

[Comment 3 Chris Piro 2002-04-21 21:43:29 UTC]

HA! I can't believe i forgot to mention i was using gcc3 :)
But is that the problem?  I'm afraid I don't understand gcc2 v. gcc3 enough to
realize why.

[Comment 4 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-04-22 05:22:01 UTC]

Yes, its related to a header change in the new version of ncurses that comes
along with gcc3 profile.

[Comment 5 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-05-28 14:27:57 UTC]

adding this in a dependency tree here, its not edb but ncurses bug

[Comment 6 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-05-28 14:28:24 UTC]

marking as invalid, its not edb, but ncurses