mc fails to link to ncurses built as two libraries: ncurses+tinfo. fails as: ./.libs/libinternal.a(tty-ncurses.o): undefined reference to symbol 'meta' /lib64/libtinfow.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line

[mc-butler]

Important

This issue was migrated from Trac:

Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3880
Reporter	slyfox (@trofi)

When ncurses library is built with --with-termlib option
the resulting installation contains two libraries:

/lib64/libncurses.so.6
/lib64/libncursesw.so.6
/lib64/libtinfo.so.6
/lib64/libtinfow.so.6

As a result mc build fails as:

$ ./configure --with-screen=ncurses
$ make

  CCLD     mc
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/5.4.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: ./.libs/libinternal.a(tty-ncurses.o): undefined reference to symbol 'meta'
/lib64/libtinfow.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line

As a workaround gentoo applies the following patch: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-misc/mc/files/mc-4.8.13-tinfo.patch

Note

Original attachments:

• mc-4.8.13-tinfo.patch (raw) by slyfox (@trofi) on Nov 26, 2017 at 22:18 UTC

[mc-butler]

Changed by slyfox (@trofi) on Nov 26, 2017 at 22:18 UTC

• Attachment mc-4.8.13-tinfo.patch (raw) added

mc-4.8.13-tinfo.patch

[mc-butler]

Changed by zaytsev (@zyv) on Nov 27, 2017 at 6:49 UTC (comment 1)

• Owner set to zaytsev
• Status changed from new to accepted
• Milestone changed from Future Releases to 4.8.21

Looks legit, Andrew?

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Nov 27, 2017 at 10:12 UTC (comment 2)

Perhaps yes, but I'd like to test this patch.
And I'd like to make some formatting: add space after comma: sed -e 's|,\[|, [|g'

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Dec 2, 2017 at 8:50 UTC (comment 3)

• Owner changed from zaytsev to andrew_b

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Dec 2, 2017 at 8:51 UTC (comment 4)

• Branch state changed from no branch to on review
• Votes set to andrew_b

Branch: 3880_fail_ncurses_link
[bf771dc]

[mc-butler]

Changed by zaytsev (@zyv) on Dec 2, 2017 at 10:09 UTC (comment 5)

• Votes changed from andrew_b to andrew_b zaytsev
• Branch state changed from on review to approved

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Dec 2, 2017 at 11:16 UTC (comment 6)

• Branch state changed from approved to merged
• Votes changed from andrew_b zaytsev to committed-master

Merged to master: [917cd17].

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Dec 2, 2017 at 11:17 UTC (comment 7)

• Status changed from accepted to testing
• Resolution set to fixed

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Dec 2, 2017 at 11:18 UTC (comment 8)

• Status changed from testing to closed