On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:19:53PM -0500, Colin Dean wrote: > Well, I thought I had everything up and working (it booted, woot). > > However, I noticed that the first program to actually use > libncurses--the kernel's menuconfig--was greatly distorted. > > Then, while trying to do something else (I can't remember now), I got > this error: > > /lib/libncursesw.so.5: file too short > > I looked at that file and it was a symlink to /lib/libncursesw.so.5.5, > which contained "INPUT(-libncursesw)". > I've seen this (and a few other variations) when I tried to apply the technique to clfs. Some of the errors I've seen were caused by thinkos in my adaptations (writing to a symlink overwrites the target, it needs to be deleted first). In this case, I think you need to go back to chroot, delete any symlinks from this package in both /lib and /usr/lib, and then rebuild it.
So far, there hasn't been much reporting of breakages on the list, so the LFS instructions are probably ok. OTOH, for a lot of the breakage I've managed on my own boxes, everything seems fine until I try to build an aspell dictionary, so it's possibly that a lot of the libraries from ncurses are not very used. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page