I've decided to see if I can get LFS up and running, just to learn more about Linux. I've been using Mandrake for about 6 months now, and I've gotten pretty familiar with the CLI.

I really have 2 problems.

1) The LFS 4.0 book recommends that I need to have libcurses.a and libncurses.a in order to compile bash. I've cheched, and I have neither file, furthermore, they aren't on any of the 3 CD's either. I've looked around for RPM's, and I've noticed that the rpm's come with libcrses.so and libncurses.so, which I DO have on my machine.

Can anyone explain to me where to get the needed files, or if the *.so files are actually what I need? I really don't know anything about the Ncurses library, or even what it's used for.


2) I went ahead and tried to compile bash, just to see what happened, and it finishes with this error.

Note: I'm using gcc version 3.2, the default with mandrake 9.0


In file included from shell.h:41,
from shell.c:48:
externs.h:163: conflicting types for `gethostname'
/usr/include/unistd.h:734: previous declaration of `gethostname'
externs.h:196: conflicting types for `strncasecmp'
/usr/include/string.h:277: previous declaration of `strncasecmp'
make: *** [shell.o] Error 1



I know what the functions are, but I'm not sure how to get around it since I'm not familiar with the software, and I'm *really* unsure of myself in Linux.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Those files should be in the ncurses-devel rpm's. At least they where in older versions of mandrake. I hope they haven't removed them in Mandrake 9

they r availble with mandrake 9 ( since i am suing it )

they r called

libncurses5-devel

enjoy ur lfs

I am no expert but those errors shouldn't be happening if you are compiling bash from Chap 5 in a static environment. It appears to me that it's looking in / when it shouldn't even matter what's in your / partition. Make sure you typed the commands exactly as they are shown from the book, and that you are doing this as an unpriviledged user. Basically I am saying follow the book word for word, and you shouldn't have too many problems.

Cool

I have Mandrake 9.0 and can't find libncurses5-devel on the cd 3. is it somewhere else? cuz stuff that needs ncurses-devel isn't working (when i try to install and the like)

thank you,
Theely

ok nm, i found the libncurses, but it still doesn't work for ncurses-devel, i'm trying to install the kernel source and it says i still need ncurses-devel....what up?

In Mandrake 9.0 I have "/usr/lib/libncurses.a". The LFS 4.0 book says that if libcurses.a is missing, just create a symlink to libncurses.a (ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a).

FYI - I like to use http://rpmfind.net to figure out which rpm has a file I'm missing. Very helpful for me.

Anyone have an answer to this problem? I get the same message.

I had the same problem. Running on Mandrake and LFS. I had to link the file libncurses.so.5 (installed from the ncurses-dev) to libncurses.a.

I also had the exact same compile error. I got round this by
./configure --enable-static-link --prefix=$LFS/static --with-curses

then doing make and make install seperatly. This thern gets you the $LFS/static/bin info and man dirs

hope this helps

Oliver

you need to install Glibc_static-deval. I had the same problem and it fixed it straight up.