From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:48:13 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 13/22] ncurses: enable shared library build on the host In-Reply-To: <1364113606-20836-14-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:26:37 +0100") References: <1364113606-20836-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1364113606-20836-14-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87a9ptm0aa.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Thomas> On the host, we generally build and install a shared library Thomas> rather than a static version of libraries. In this specific Thomas> case, we will want to build host-gettext, which builds a shared Thomas> library that depends on ncurses. And this doesn't work well if Thomas> ncurses is static because it hasn't been built with Thomas> -fPIC. Therefore, let's build ncurses as shared on the host. Committed, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard