[SM-Discuss] xfree86 compile problems
Sergey A Lipnevich
sergeyli at pisem.net
Mon Nov 4 12:29:49 EST 2002
I had xfree86 failing to build because of kernel 2.4.20-pre5. Built a
new kernel (2.4.20-pre11 I think), the problem was gone. That was before
ncurses upgrade.
John T Copeland wrote:
> Marcus,
> I get the same error with xfree86. I have tried everything I can
> think of to fix but unsuccessful so far. Reduced optimazation
> levels. Tried the ncurses fix outlined by Julian:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> If you have updated ncurses to version 5.3 after the latest gcc build,
> you might get build errors when trying to compile spells which use
> ncurses.
>
> The problem is that gcc tries to fix headers it finds on the system
> which might cause in some way trouble and stores them in a private
> directory. This include directory is used before /usr/include, and
> ncurses.h has (of course) not been updated in this directory.
>
> To make things work again remove
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/*/3.2/include/ncurses.h
>
> The /usr/include/ncurses.h header will be used afterwards but this
> should not be a problem in this case. If you get strange compilation
> errors in ncurses.h, rebuild gcc.
> ----------------------------------
> Downgraded to to ncurses 5.2
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ReCast gcc
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Did another cast system-update after the rebuild
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> My system is stable-sorcery 8.2.0?, devel-grimoire. All spells
> udpated and rebuilt(except xfree and kde of course). I had no real
> problems converting to gcc3.2/glibc2.3.1 after I followed the
> instructions given in the discuss-lists. All spells compiled ok
> except xfree. I had a little problem with networking scripts not
> containing the mount.sh links, but I installed the links manually. My
> system is bootable and no probems except the xfree compile which is
> maybe a bug? since at least 1 other, Marcus Martin has it.
>
> Has anyone else ran into this problem? Can anyone offer a solution?
>
> I had to revert to Win2K to send this message! Damn!
>
> Thanks,
>
> JohnC
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