Re: ncurses compile problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Benjamin Foote wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems compiling ncurses.  The problem appears to be with
> tic....
>
> The error line is:
> tic: symbol lookup error: tic: undefined symbol: _nc_check_termtype2

briefly: tic and infocmp use private symbols from the ncurses library.

Occasionally I add one to solve some problem in tic/infocmp that can't be 
done via the public symbols.  The linker is finding the copy of ncurses 
that's already installed.

There are two workarounds (now that I'm thinking of it, I should embed the 
latter in progs/Makefile.in):

        a) install the libraries before compiling tic

           (old versions of tic generally work - the only exception that
           comes to mind was a packager who'd turned on memory-leak
           debugging in an rpm for general distribution - so I couldn't
           reuse that /usr/bin/tic).

        b) use the misc/shlib wrapper script to override $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
           so the link succeeds.

           That's generally portable - but you can still run into problems
           if you're using the rpath option.

> I'm running Gentoo and have tried to seek support from the gentoo forums
> but nobody seems to know what the problem (or solution) is.  Google has
> come up short as well.

I only see this question 3-4 times a year...

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