ncurses update pending? (was: Re: library `/usr/lib/libncurses.la' was moved.)

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Hi Charles,

> In November *2004* Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Getting this warning:
>>>
>>> libtool: link: warning: library `/usr/lib/libncurses.la' was moved.
>>>
>>> $ cat /usr/lib/libncurses.la
>>> [...]
>>> # Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
>>> libdir='/usr/src/ncurses/ncurses-5.4/.inst/usr/lib'
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmm....sorry I missed that.  ncurses is weird; it uses libtool but not 
>> automake, so DESTDIR installs are tricky.  I'll try to roll a new 
>> release next week sometime.  In the meantime, just change the line to 
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                               hear, hear.

>> the obvious
>>
>>
>> libdir='/usr/lib'
>>
>> You'll also need to change "dependency_libs" as well -- and these 
>> modifications go for all of the ncurses .la files:
>>
>> libpanel.la
>> libmenu.la
>> libform.la
>> libncurses.la
>> libncurses++.la
> 
> 
> It is not really a problem since the linker finds the libraries anyway, 
> maybe just the generated .la files are wrong though.

Well, it is a problem when building PHP because they use thier own
special system:

libtool: link: warning: library `/usr/lib/libpanel.la' was moved.
grep: /usr/src/ncurses/ncurses-5.4/.inst/usr/lib/libncurses.la: No such 
file or directory
/usr/bin/sed: can't read 
/usr/src/ncurses/ncurses-5.4/.inst/usr/lib/libncurses.la: No such file 
or directory
libtool: link: 
`/usr/src/ncurses/ncurses-5.4/.inst/usr/lib/libncurses.la' is not a 
valid libtool archive
make: *** [ext/ncurses/ncurses.la] Error 1

Reini wrote:
> this should fix all those .la's:

was missing a /usr, this is better:

zcat /etc/setup/libncurses-devel.lst.gz | grep "\.la$" | \
   (cd /; xargs perl -pi.orig \
    -e 's|/usr/src/ncurses/ncurses-5.4/.build/lib|/usr/lib|g; \
     s|/usr/src/ncurses/ncurses-5.4/.inst/usr/lib|/usr/lib|g' )


Gerrit
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