Re: www/curl build error

[Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>]

Turns out my NetBSD box is experiencing a disk failure.

I'll let you know if the problem persists after I rebuild it.

Thanks,

    Jason

On 06/05/16 10:29, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > I ran into the following build error for www/curl on NetBSD 6.1.5:
> >
> >    CC       ../lib/curl-nonblock.o
> >    CC       ../lib/curl-warnless.o
> >    CCLD     curl
> > ld: cannot find -lncurses
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop.
> > bmake.bin[2]: stopped in
> > /usr/home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2016Q1/www/curl/work/curl-7.47.1/src
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Adding .include "../../mk/curses.buildlink3.mk" resolved it.
> >
> > Note that this build was in an unprivileged pkgsrc 2016Q1 tree, not
> > /usr/pkgsrc.
> I built www/curl on fairly recent netbsd-6, and it built without that.
> However, I do have ncurses installed.  But, I then grepped over the
> entire pkgsrc directory with a build tree and "curses" does not appear.
>
> I can't find any documentation in curl that says it needs curses.
>
> The newly-built curl does not link to any kind of curses.
>
> Do you know where -lncurses is coming from, and why?


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