[SOLVED] stfl.SlackBuild fails while looking for ncursesw/ncurses.h

atanasoff · 09-23-2010, 06:22 PM

Hi
My system is mostly slack 11.0 (Absolute Linux 11.0 actually)
I have been trying to build stfl from SlackBuilds.org. I think I'm missing some ncurses wide stuff but don't know how to compile for ncursesw. I have stock ncurses5.5 on my system.

Compiler output is:

Makefile:90: Makefile.deps: No such file or directory
gcc -pthread -I. -MM *.c > Makefile.deps_new
gcc -pthread -O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686 -I. -Wall -Os -ggdb -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -c -o public.o public.
In file included from public.c:23:
stfl_internals.h:31:30: ncursesw/ncurses.h: No such file or directory
In file included from public.c:23:
stfl_internals.h:48: error: syntax error before "WINDOW"
stfl_internals.h:144: error: syntax error before '*' token
stfl_internals.h:145: error: syntax error before "WINDOW"
stfl_internals.h:150: error: syntax error before "WINDOW"
make: *** [public.o] Error 1

I have /usr/include/ncurses on my system but not /usr/include/ncursesw/ncurses.h

My goal is to compile newsbeuter but this dependency is in the way.

Thanks

arunpmenon · 09-23-2010, 07:43 PM

Please check ncurses-devel is available or not.

atanasoff · 09-23-2010, 08:00 PM

I'm pretty sure ncurses-devel is the common solution, but I don't have it and I don't think slack distributions package it that way. Need pointers on how to make devel available.

T3slider · 09-23-2010, 09:28 PM

From the 13.1 SlackBuild:

Code:

if [ ! -d $PKG/usr/include/ncursesw -a ! -L $PKG/usr/include/ncursesw ]; then
  ( cd $PKG/usr/include ; ln -sf ncurses ncursesw )
fi

That is NOT present in the 11.0 SlackBuild, though both should be built with widec support according to the configure options passed. You can try creating the symlink manually in 11.0 and see if it works:

Code:

cd /usr/include ; ln -s ncurses ncursesw

It would be wise to make sure that symlink doesn't already exist -- if it does, then obviously my advice is meaningless. I no longer have an 11.0 box to check and I don't feel like building 5.5 to check if that link is created automatically. I have no idea if that will work or not -- 11.0's ncurses is, in theory, built with wide character support (and it does have /usr/include/ncurses/cursesw.h), so it may work. If not, you may need to compile a newer version of ncurses (13.1 uses 5.7, 11.0 uses 5.5).

Good luck.

atanasoff · 09-24-2010, 05:32 PM

cd /usr/include ; ln -s ncurses ncursesw

solved the ncursesw compile problem. I'll mark this
thread as solved.

Now the stf.SlackBuild compile is crashing over a ruby library conflict of some sort. I may start another thread
about that.

Thank you for your help!