Processed: Re: Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > clone 644728 -1 Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken Bug 644728 cloned as bug 645112. > reassign -1 zsh 4.3.12-1 Bug #645112 [libncurses5-dev] libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is brok

Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
clone 644728 -1 reassign -1 zsh 4.3.12-1 retitle -1 zsh: FTBFS: configure: error: "No terminal handling library was found on your system." clone 644728 -2 reassign -2 bash 4.1-3 retitle -2 bash: FTBFS with libncurses5-dev 5.9-3 severity -2 important tags -2 wheezy sid retitle 644728 libncurses5-de

Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-10 21:39 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 18:00:46 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> But maybe we should also think about our users who will have a hard time >> linking anything statically with ncurses. >> > Are there really that many people doing that? Apparently

Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-10 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 18:00:46 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > But maybe we should also think about our users who will have a hard time > linking anything statically with ncurses. > Are there really that many people doing that? And who can't replace "-lncurses" with "pkg-config --static --libs nc

Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-09 10:23 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 10/08/2011 07:56 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> >> If zsh used pkg-config, it could use today's update (ncurses patch) >> >> pkg-config --static --libs ncurses >> >> That's one path forward... >> >> But most of your FTBFS's will be only lo

Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matthias Klose wrote: On 10/08/2011 07:56 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: ... If zsh used pkg-config, it could use today's update (ncurses patch) pkg-config --static --libs ncurses That's one path forward... But most of your FTBFS's will be only looking for "-lncurses", not

Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-09 Thread Matthias Klose
On 10/08/2011 07:56 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2011-10-08 16:14 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> Package: libncurses5-dev >>> Version: 5.9-2 >>> Severity: serious >>> X-Debbugs-CC: Matthias Klose >>> >>> Static linking with -lncurses fails if you n

Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-10-08 16:14 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Package: libncurses5-dev Version: 5.9-2 Severity: serious X-Debbugs-CC: Matthias Klose Static linking with -lncurses fails if you need symbols from libtinfo: , | $ cat foo.c | #include | #include |

Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-08 16:14 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Package: libncurses5-dev > Version: 5.9-2 > Severity: serious > X-Debbugs-CC: Matthias Klose > > Static linking with -lncurses fails if you need symbols from libtinfo: > > , > | $ cat foo.c > | #include > | #include > | > | int main(void) >

Bug#644728: libncurses5-dev: static linking with -lncurses is broken

2011-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: libncurses5-dev Version: 5.9-2 Severity: serious X-Debbugs-CC: Matthias Klose Static linking with -lncurses fails if you need symbols from libtinfo: , | $ cat foo.c | #include | #include | | int main(void) | { | return tgetent(NULL, ""); | } | $ LANG=C gcc foo.c -lncurses -stat