Re: Compile error in gnome-utils

[Jason Trickett <jtrickett hwcn org>]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Samuel Stringham wrote:

> On 2002.10.29 00:03 Jason Trickett wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Samuel Stringham wrote:
> >
> > > On 2002.10.27 11:06 Jason Trickett wrote:
> > > > I've encountered a compile error with garnome 0.18.2 pertaining to
> > the
> > > > gnome-utils package, mostly 'undefined reference' errors like:
> > > >
> > > > yesno.c:183: undefined reference to 'delwin'
> > > >
> > > > I have several screens worth of errors like this. Am I missing a
> > > > particular package?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sounds like it didn't check for curses/ncurses in gdialog.  Check to
> > > see which library you have, and report the bug to bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > --
> >
> > The version of ncurses I have is 5.2-16mdk (for Mandrake 8.1). If it's
> > truly a bug in gdialog is it possible to continue with garnome 0.18.2
> > by
> > sidestepping this?
> >
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> run: nm -B /usr/lib/libncurses.so | grep delwin
>
> and see if it comes up with something along the lines of:
> 12345 T delwin
> ^^^   ^ ^^^
> 1     2  3
> 1: doesn't matter, just the location in the file
> 2: should be T meaning it is in the TEXT of the library file
> 3: is just the name of the function that library contains.
>
> If it does, then just add -lncurses to the end of the line that fails
> to compile, and it will probably do the trick.  if it doesn't, yeah
> skip it, you can live without gdialog.
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I ran 'nm -B ...' and the result was 'nm: /usr/lib/libncurses.so: no
symbols'. So now I can skip gdialog .... but how exactly? I'm still a
novice. Sorry for the dumb(?) question.