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--- Begin Message ---
Package: libncurses5-dev
Version: 5.9-8
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
Since upgrade from squeeze to wheezy few days ago, "ld" reports that
libncurses.so.5 not found.
$ gcc -o foo foo.c -lncurses
/usr/local/bin/ld: cannot find libncurses.so.5
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
$ cat foo.c
char tgetent ();
int main ()
{
return tgetent ();
;
return 0;
}
# ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
It seems that issue is in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so:
# cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so
INPUT(libncurses.so.5 -ltinfo)
Changing this to full path fixes problem:
# cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so
INPUT(/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 -ltinfo)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.4.1-vlad-bdver1-05 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libncurses5-dev depends on:
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.13-33
ii libncurses5 5.9-8
ii libtinfo-dev 5.9-8
ii libtinfo5 5.9-8
ii ncurses-bin 5.9-8
libncurses5-dev recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libncurses5-dev suggests:
pn ncurses-doc <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: ncurses
Version: 6.4+20231118-1
On 2012-06-19 23:30 -0500, Vladimir K wrote:
> Thanks, I am running upstream GCC 4.7.1 and it appears to be caused
> from it; compiled no problem under 4.4 (Debian). It seems following
> can be used as a work-around instead of modifying libncurses.so file:
>
> LIBRARY_PATH=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> export LIBRARY_PATH
In ncurses version 6.4+20231118-1, all libraries were moved below /usr.
So if your linker finds libncurses.so, it should also find
libncurses.so.6 in the same directory.
Cheers,
Sven
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