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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Anh K. Huynh" <kyanh@viettug.org>
Cc: backports@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Buid backports-20130528 on ArchLinux: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltinfo
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:41:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370194899.8366.5.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130602220934.3079ee4f@icy> (sfid-20130602_170957_728483_48913C26)

On Sun, 2013-06-02 at 22:09 +0700, Anh K. Huynh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm building the `backports-20130528` on ArchLinux (kernel = 3.2.46).
> I see the error as in http://pastie.org/7996763 .
> 
> I don't have any problem when building the new Linux kernel. When I
> remove the `tinfo` support from the file `kconf/Makefile` I can run 
> `make menuconfig` perfectly.
> 
> Is the `tinfo` library really needed to run `make menuconfig` when
> building backports drivers?

It was needed on some distros, and not on others. This is probably the
best option?

diff --git a/backport/kconf/Makefile b/backport/kconf/Makefile
index ff5c270..dfd793a 100644
--- a/backport/kconf/Makefile
+++ b/backport/kconf/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ CFLAGS=-Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
 LXDIALOG := lxdialog/checklist.o lxdialog/inputbox.o lxdialog/menubox.o lxdialog/textbox.o lxdialog/util.o lxdialog/yesno.o
 
 conf: conf.o zconf.tab.o
-mconf: LDFLAGS = -Wl,--no-as-needed -lncurses -ltinfo
+mconf: LDFLAGS = -Wl,--no-as-needed $(shell ./lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh -ldflags $(CC))
 mconf: CFLAGS += -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE
 mconf: mconf.o zconf.tab.o $(LXDIALOG)
 

johannes



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-02 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-02 15:09 Buid backports-20130528 on ArchLinux: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltinfo Anh K. Huynh
2013-06-02 17:41 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-06-03  3:18   ` Anh K. Huynh

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