Ken Moffat wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 08:56:31AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Ken Moffat wrote:
I've just found out why my xindy tests were failing :-(
The texlive binary needs non-wide ncurses for some things, primarily
xindy. Ncurses had been stuck at 5.x versions for so long that I
parsed that as non-wide ncurses.so instead of non-wide ncurses.so.5*
Now that we are on ncurses6, the xindy binary breaks. In the past,
it was easy enough to point to the LFS book. But now that LFS has
moved to ncurses6, we need ncurses-5.9 and the gcc5_buildfixes-1
patch.
The build is quite straightforward:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared \
--without-normal --without-debug --without-cxx-binding
make sources libs
cp -av lib/lib*.so.5* /usr/lib
But I cannot see any alternative to adding this to blfs _somewhere_,
called ??? (I'd really like to put the non-wide and '5' into the
title, rather than ncurses-5.9.0, but not sure if that is
practical), with a note that this is only for binary packages such
as install-tl-unx which need a non-wide .so.5.
Since it is specific to install-tl-unx, then I'd like to see it embedded in
that section or in a separate section just prior to
install-tl-unx.
-- Bruce
I had a further thought : please take a look at the Note in LFS
chroot ncurses (at the bottom of the the Installation part).
In future, binary software linked to libncurses.so.6 might appear.
But for the moment the requirement will always be for .so.5 so LFS
is in practice wrong.
Therefore, non-wide ncurses 5 needs to be referenced from LFS,
unless we are going to restrict choice. I suggest that 'genlib' is
the proper place, with a Note that this page is only required for
running binary software that uses libncurses.so.5.
Hmm. We would need to list the url for 5.9. I believe the instructions
would be the same, but there might be a conflict for the
/usr/lib/libcursesw.so. I suppose we only would need
/usr/lib/libcursesw.so.5 -> libcursesw.so.5.9
/usr/lib/libcursesw.so.5.9
to avoid the conflict.
-- Bruce
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