Package: libncurses-dev
Version: 6.1+20180210-4
Severity: normal
Linking a program as trivial as the following statically fails:
#include <curses.h>
int main(void)
{
initscr();
endwin();
return 0;
}
,----
| $ LANG=C gcc curses_min.c -static $(pkg-config --static --libs ncurses)
|
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/7/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o):
In function `_nc_mouse_event':
| (.text+0x5be): undefined reference to `Gpm_GetEvent'
|
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/7/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o):
In function `enable_gpm_mouse':
| (.text+0xc51): undefined reference to `Gpm_Close'
| (.text+0xc89): undefined reference to `Gpm_Open'
| (.text+0xc9d): undefined reference to `Gpm_Close'
|
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/7/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o):
In function `_nc_mouse_init':
| (.text+0xe13): undefined reference to `gpm_fd'
|
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/7/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o):
In function `mouse_activate':
| (.text+0x1032): undefined reference to `gpm_fd'
| collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
`----
Adding -lgpm works around that, but neither the pkgconfig files nor
ncurses6-config make any mention of -lgpm in the configuration we use
for the static libraries, so I guess it is not intended to be necessary.
In stretch linking the above program without -lgpm works, not sure when
exactly that broke.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages libncurses-dev depends on:
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.27-3
ii libncurses6 6.1+20180210-4
ii libncursesw6 6.1+20180210-4
ii libtinfo6 6.1+20180210-4
ii ncurses-bin 6.1+20180210-4
libncurses-dev recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libncurses-dev suggests:
ii ncurses-doc 6.1+20180210-4
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