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  • From: Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [SM-Users] [SM-USERS] Unable to perform rebuild of the system after installation...
  • Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:55:44 +0200

On Sunday 26 of August 2007 01:10:04 David Kowis wrote:
> This ended up on the SM-USERS ML
>
> Javier Vasquez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After installing smgl from iso 0.9.6.3 (current stable CD image), I've
> > tried to perform a rebuild as suggested by the end of the installation
> > process, and in all attempts what happens is that at the time of
> > ncurses copmpilation I get the error of libncurses.*.5.so not present.
> > After this error the system is useless since somehow bash, and all
> > the sorcery stuff (sorcery, cast, gaze, etc) seems to depend upon this
> > library.
> >
> > I tried then to install, and just recompile some developing suite
> > (gcc, g++, gettext, texinfo, readline, auto-tools, make automake,
> > autoconf, nasm, etc...), and then recompiling ncurses, and this works
> > pretty nice. Then I continued recompiling the rest of te spells by
> > little groups, and everything went OK.
> >
> > After recompiling the whole thing, then to confirm I just tried
> > recompiling ncurses only, and yet again I got the libncurses shared
> > library error. I have no clue on what could be affecting this. Maybe
> > the shared library is getting removed too early? I have no clue, but
> > I can't do much to find out since the system without useful prompt is
> > pretty much useless...
> >
> > Notice I tried the same, but before recompiling changing the scribe
> > from stable to test, just in case it was a matter of the version of
> > some spell, but the result was yet again the same shared library
> > error.
> >
> > Any hints about this? Please let me know what can be done as a
> > procedure to avoid this... Maybe installing a newer version of the CD
> > image?
> >
> > smgl-0.9.6-x86-2.6.14.2-nptl-test4.iso.bz2
>
> We should defaultly build ncurses with utf-8. And all new installations
> should be set up this way. If you've already got ncurses and it's not
> utf-8, then it shouldn't try to update it. The ratio of "I don't know
> what" lost to complete system borkage isn't very good.
>
> Basically what I mean is: anything gained by allowing the user to pick
> utf8 vs non-utf8 isn't worth the potential system complete borkage.
>
> I'm saying we should do something smart about it. Warn the everloving
> crap out of the user if they try to change what it's built with. New
> installations come with utf-8 enabled. The spell would make them answer
> yes twice to change the thing:
>
> "UTF-8 support[n]? y"
> "ARE YOU REALLY FREAKN SURE? THIS HAS MUCH POTENTIAL FOR BLOWING UP YOUR
> COMPUTER AND ELECTING THE WORST LEADER YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE FOR
> YOUR GOVERNMENT [n]? n"
> "OK, you're safe. Have a nice day."
>
> Same basic thing for going in the opposite direction.
This is possibly the same as
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13654

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