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2000-07-24 20:56

2000-07-28 11:29

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0000166: problem to staticly link with ncurses

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Full_Name: Vanicat Rémi
Version: Ocaml 3
OS: Redhat 6.1
Submission from: serveur1-1.labri.u-bordeaux.fr (147.210.8.170)

I'have found something that is not exctly a bug, but which is anoying :
when i try to staticly link an ocaml program, it fail :
+serveur1-1:~/lang/ocaml$ ocamlopt -ccopt --static toto.ml
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lcurses: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Error during linking

the raison is quite simple : there is a libcurses.so, which is a link to
libncurses.so, but no libcurses.a, so the configure script succed to do a
-lcurses but i failed when i link staticly.

the solution was quite simple for me : i'have change the configure script,
but maybe it should have an option to choose one's curses library.

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(0002144) administrator (administrator) 2000-07-28 11:28	> I'have found something that is not exctly a bug, but which is anoying : > when i try to staticly link an ocaml program, it fail : > +serveur1-1:~/lang/ocaml$ ocamlopt -ccopt --static toto.ml > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lcurses: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > Error during linking > > the raison is quite simple : there is a libcurses.so, which is a link to > libncurses.so, but no libcurses.a, so the configure script succed to do a > -lcurses but i failed when i link staticly. I view this as a bug in RedHat's ncurses-devel RPM: since it includes a symbolic link for libcurses.so, it should also contain a symbolic link for libcurses.a. - Xavier Leroy

(0002145) administrator (administrator) 2000-07-28 11:29	RedHat RPM packaging bug

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