[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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