Re: Who handles "fails to build" problems for bash?

[Chet Ramey]

> Could not find any groups other than this for bash problems. My build is 
> failing with 
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/users/tovrea/BASH/build_sgi_bash/lib/tilde'
> rm -f bash
> /home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/bin/gcc -L./builtins -L./lib/readline 
> -L./lib/readline -L./lib/glob -L./lib/tilde  -L./lib/sh 
> -L/home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/lib/gcc/mips-sgi-irix6.5/4.3.0 
> -L/home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/lib/gcc/mips-sgi-irix6.5/4.3.0/32 
> -L/home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/lib/gcc/mips-sgi-irix6.5/lib32 
> -L/home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/lib    -g -O2 -o bash shell.o eval.o y.tab.o 
> general.o make_cmd.o print_cmd.o  dispose_cmd.o execute_cmd.o variables.o 
> copy_cmd.o error.o expr.o flags.o jobs.o subst.o hashcmd.o hashlib.o 
> mailcheck.o trap.o input.o unwind_prot.o pathexp.o sig.o test.o version.o 
> alias.o array.o arrayfunc.o braces.o bracecomp.o bashhist.o bashline.o  
> list.o stringlib.o locale.o findcmd.o redir.o pcomplete.o pcomplib.o syntax.o 
> xmalloc.o  -lbuiltins -lsh -lreadline -lhistory -ltermcap -lglob -ltilde  
> lib/intl/libintl.a   -ldl 
> /home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/bin/ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to 
> dynamic symbol PC
> /home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: 
> Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [bash] Error 1

The quick fix should be adding -lcurses or -lncurses (whatever works) as the
value of TERMCAP_LIB in the= Makefile.

The longer fix is to look at config.log and try and figure out why there is
(apparently) no library that contains the termcap functions, and why the
build process is not defaulting to the built-in termcap library if so.

Chet

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