Re: Build errors at link time - what am I missing?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 08:26:07PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 08:20:53PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm trying to build vile-9.8 on a Debian system where I have a shared
> > hosting account with ssh access.
> > 
> > I'm doing "./configure --prefix=$HOME" and it runs OK but there are
> > couple of warnings.
> > 
> > Firstly it can't find a good lex so it says:-
> >     configure: WARNING: disabling build for lex-filters
> > I don't think this is going to be an issue.
> > 
> > However, later on in configure I get:-
> >     configure: WARNING: Cannot find -ltermlib, -lcurses, or -ltermcap
> > and then at link time there are loads of undefined references to
> > tputs, tgoto, and a lot of other txxxxx symbols.
> > 
> > So presumably I need to build one of those libraries, or is there
> > something simpler I can do?
> > 
> The system does have libncurses, it's in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. Is
> it possible that directory isn't on the cc/linker search path?  How do
> I add it?

You need the development package.  The runtime package has a similarly named
library file.

For example (Debian/oldstable)

libtinfo6 has
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtic.so.6

libncurses-dev hs
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so

The plain ".so" is what development packages link with, e.g., -ltinfo

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