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From: Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses / tinfo problem
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 10:26:47
Message-Id: CA75A73D-DB68-4EF5-B119-F95D75CD9DCF@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ncurses / tinfo problem by Helmut Jarausch
1 Am March 30, 2018 10:07:41 AM UTC schrieb Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××.be>:
2 >Hi,
3 >there are several packages which fail to link since they are missing
4 >'-ltinfo' - recently
5 >app-antivirus/clamav-0.99.4-r1
6 >
7 >For a temporary fix I have edited the config.status file by changing
8 >
9 >S["CURSES_LIBS"]="-lncurses"
10 >to
11 >S["CURSES_LIBS"]="-lncurses -ltinfo"
12 >
13 >and using
14 >
15 >ebuild /usr/portage/app-antivirus/clamav/clamav-0.99.4-r1.ebuild merge
16 >
17 >But I think that this is a more general problem.
18 >
19 >Has anybody found a fix which works for several such packages?
20 >
21 >Many thanks for a hint,
22 >Helmut
23
24 This are bugs in the build system of the package which is not detecting the separate library. You should file a bug about it.
25
26 Is there a special requirement for building ncurses with tinfo? If not the easy fix is disabling the tinfo USE flag for ncurses.
27
28 --
29 Best Regards
30 Daniel

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