Help, my ld is cripled. =(((

[Alan Grimes]

The LD in my gentoo system is profoundly brain defective.

I mean if it said "missing symbol in lib ncurses" or "multiple
definitions of symbol X defined at line A, B, C" then I  would be happy....

but, I have:

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address@hidden /usr/lib $ cat libncurses.so
/* GNU ld script
   Since Gentoo has critical dynamic libraries in /lib, and the static
versions
   in /usr/lib, we need to have a "fake" dynamic lib in /usr/lib,
otherwise we
   run into linking problems.  This "fake" dynamic lib is a linker
script that
   redirects the linker to the real lib.  And yes, this works in the cross-
   compiling scenario as the sysroot-ed linker will prepend the real path.

   See bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/4411 for more info.
 */
OUTPUT_FORMAT ( elf64-x86-64 )
GROUP ( /lib64/libncurses.so.5 )
address@hidden /usr/lib $

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(I originally named my 6 core AMD phenom 2 processor "tortoise" as a
joke but it has since lived up to that name by being slugish and
nonresponsive... mostly due to X11 and possible hardware failures in my
GPU...)

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address@hidden /lib64 $ ls -l libncurses*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 Jul 11 14:47 libncurses.so ->
libncurses.so.5.9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 Oct 29 23:52 libncurses.so.5 ->
libncurses.so.5.9
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 193617 Oct 29 23:51 libncurses.so.5.9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Jul 11 14:49 libncursesw.so ->
libncursesw.so.5.9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Oct 29 23:52 libncursesw.so.5 ->
libncursesw.so.5.9
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 265140 Oct 29 23:51 libncursesw.so.5.9
address@hidden /lib64 $
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So, there is no reason on god's lush and bountious green world that I
should be suffering through:

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make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts
  applets/usage_compressed include/usage_compressed.h applets
  applets/applet_tables include/applet_tables.h include/NUM_APPLETS.h
  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,applets/.usage_pod.d  -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer      -Iinclude -Iinclude -o
applets/usage_pod applets/usage_pod.c 
  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,applets/.applets.o.d   -std=gnu99
-Iinclude -Ilibbb  -include include/autoconf.h -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-D"BB_VER=KBmake -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts
  applets/usage_compressed include/usage_compressed.h applets
  applets/applet_tables include/applet_tables.h include/NUM_APPLETS.h
  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,applets/.usage_pod.d  -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer      -Iinclude -Iinclude -o
applets/usage_pod applets/usage_pod.c 
  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,applets/.applets.o.d   -std=gnu99
-Iinclude -Ilibbb  -include include/autoconf.h -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-D"BB_VER=KBUILD_STR(1.23.0)" -DBB_BT=AUTOCONF_TIMESTAMP -O3
-march=native -pipe  -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings
-Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wunused -Wunused-parameter
-Wunused-function -Wunused-value -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations -Wno-format-security
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wold-style-definition -fno-builtin-strlen
-finline-limit=0 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
-fno-guess-branch-probability -funsigned-char   -fno-unwind-tables
-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables      -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s"
-D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(applets)" 
-D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(applets)" -c -o applets/applets.o
applets/applets.c
   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -nostdlib -nostdlib -lncurses -r -o
applets/built-in.o applets/applets.o
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
cannot find -lncurses
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
scripts/Makefile.build:264: recipe for target 'applets/built-in.o' failed
make[1]: *** [applets/built-in.o] Error 1
Makefile:372: recipe for target 'applets_dir' failed
make: *** [applets_dir] Error 2
 * ERROR: sys-apps/busybox-1.23.0::gentoo failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed
 *
UILD_STR(1.23.0)" -DBB_BT=AUTOCONF_TIMESTAMP -O3 -march=native -pipe 
-fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -Wundef
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wunused -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-function
-Wunused-value -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
-Wno-format-security -Wdeclaration-after-statement
-Wold-style-definition -fno-builtin-strlen -finline-limit=0
-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-guess-branch-probability
-funsigned-char   -fno-unwind-tables
-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables      -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s"
-D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(applets)" 
-D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(applets)" -c -o applets/applets.o
applets/applets.c
   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -nostdlib -nostdlib -lncurses -r -o
applets/built-in.o applets/applets.o
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
cannot find -lncurses
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
scripts/Makefile.build:264: recipe for target 'applets/built-in.o' failed
make[1]: *** [applets/built-in.o] Error 1
Makefile:372: recipe for target 'applets_dir' failed
make: *** [applets_dir] Error 2
 * ERROR: sys-apps/busybox-1.23.0::gentoo failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed
 *
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for many months now...

This error is really driving me crazy because it should just work or at
least give an actionable error message... Should I go symlink libncurses
to every path on my entire computer? =P I have been contemplating that
but then I would probably go crazy once I got the same error message I
mean how much effort is ld actually expending to NOT find the specified
library????

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