>Number:         9988
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       ncurses fails on sparc
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 26 16:04:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Release:        ncurses-5.0, NetBSD-1.4.2<NetBSD-current source date>
>Organization:

>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD cowboy-burt 1.4.1 NetBSD 1.4.1 (COWBOY-BURT) #1: Sat Oct 2 21:08:08 EDT 1999 dan@cowboy-burt:/amd/dinah-moe/export/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/COWBOY-BURT sparc


>Description:
ncurses fails to link.
most of it builds, then at the end:

/usr/bin/ld -Bshareable -o .libs/libncurses++.so.5.0 ../objects/cursesf.lo ../objects/cursesm.l
o ../objects/cursesw.lo ../objects/cursespad.lo ../objects/cursesp.lo ../objects/cursslk.lo ../
objects/cursesapp.lo ../objects/cursesmain.lo /usr/lib/c++rt0.o
ld: /usr/lib/c++rt0.o: illegal reloc type mix
*** Error code 1



	
>How-To-Repeat:
on a sparc:
cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses
make
	
>Fix:

none really.  some random thoughts are:

The following makes ncurses build, but of course there are no
c++ bindings then.  The selection of -fPIC (instead of -fpic) is
set within pkglibtool and is magic I don't understand.

what about providing a c++rt0.o compiled with -fPIC?
could we even just have an extra distfile with this .o file in 
it and link to that when building ncurses?

RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -r1.29 Makefile
16c16,17
<                       --with-manpage-format=normal
---
>                       --with-manpage-format=normal \
>                       --without-cxx-binding

	
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