On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Scott Garman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 05:06 AM, Sergey Lapin wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Sergey Lapin<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> commit dd05e06b89906002f68d616a6326c962e725bc54
>>> Author: Christopher Larson<[email protected]>
>>> Date:   Tue Jan 10 13:51:18 2012 -0600
>>>
>>>    ncurses-native: install to libdir, not base_libdir
>>
>>
>> I was wrong with this one, actual culprit is this one:
>>
>> commit 796c3d038fb7892a5e5206fb10217623de18853f
>> Author: Scott Garman<[email protected]>
>> Date:   Wed Jan 4 22:30:29 2012 -0800
>>
>>
>>>
>>> breaks python ncurses support.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on proper fixing? For myself I revert this locally and
>>> everything works perfectly.
>>> (I think .so files and .a archives should be in usr/lib while .so
>>> can go to /lib which is not the case with current ncurses.)
>>> so mv in do_install should be sufficient, not --libdir=${base_libdir}.
>
>
> Could you be more specific about how python ncurses support is broken? I
> assume you're getting errors of unresolved symbols. If that's the case, you
> may need to rebuild the application so it links to ncurses from base_libdir.
No, python fails to find the library.
And it is bad practice to put develeopment files in /lib anyway.
I think, putting .so.x.x intu lib was sufficient instead of setting
whole libdir to /lib.
Or development files might be moved to /usr/lib back (and .so symlink re-created
to address this).

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