On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:58:53 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > bdu...@lfs6:/usr/sbin$ ldd grub > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) > libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7efd000) libc.so.6 > => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7ddc000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f59000) > > Looks like it needs it to me.
Not quite. It'll happily build without it. One can even configure the build `--without-curses' to force the issue. However, I'm not sure what is actually gained or lost by not linking against ncurses. A quick grep of the source suggests "not much". Regards Greg -- http://www.diy-linux.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page