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  • From: "M.L." <mlubrano AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>, Christian Sonne <christian AT subigo.dk>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ncurses, slang, and gcc, oh my!
  • Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:49:56 +0100

Hi,

Here I removed gcc's ncurse headers, and symlinked genuine ncurse headers
instead.

It allowed me to compile xfree86 and it's fine now it seems.

Just my few cents.
Bye,
Mat.

On Vendredi 13 Décembre 2002 21:39, Dufflebunk wrote:
> NO! Having spells mess with install logs (even their own) is a Very Bad
> Thing (tm). It makes it possible for a spell to corrupt all the infomation
> about all spells.
> If you ask me, the bug is in gcc itself, not the spell, but the program.
> There should be a way for it to use the right headers.
>
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Christian Sonne wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > not knowing _exactly_ how --fix works, but asuming it does something
> > like check if the files from the install-log are existing, then wouldn't
> > it be better to just make the spell tamper with the install-log, remove
> > the desired line, so it won't corrupt during fix?
> >
> > having to recompile gcc is arguably better than corrupting spells, but
> > imho still a Bad Thing (TM).
> >
> > FreakCERS
> >
> > > So, if recompiling gcc after ncurses (and slang) fixes those, we should
> > > add triggers to gcc so that it recompiles after these are updated (and
> > > any others that people find). I haven't tried recompiling gcc to see
> > > if this works (recompiling now, but it's a PII-300, so it'll take a
> > > while. ;)), but if anyone else knows/can try faster, please do.
> > >
> > > Here is the slang info:
> > > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1957
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > -One of Four
> > > a.k.a. sandalle
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