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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Oct 16, Seth Alan Woolley [seth AT positivism.org] wrote:
> does bash.static work on x86_64?  Never worked for me.
> 
> If you have the old cache, can you dump the install log to me via email 
> and your ncurses 5.5 install log?
> 
> It may have been installed with a really old spell.  new 5.4 and 5.5 
> mcurses should be a more advanced spell that works properly, however, 
> the older version might not work correctly.
> 
> Can you try downgrading to 5.4 with the new spell (just change version 
> etc), then reupdating, and checking to see if there was a difference 
> between the old and new 5.4 install logs?

I tried this upgrade on a test VM and hit another issue:

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sh ./run_tic.sh
** Building terminfo database, please wait...
Running tic to install /usr/share/terminfo ...

        You may see messages regarding extended capabilities, e.g., AX.
        These are extended terminal capabilities which are compiled
        using
                tic -x
        If you have ncurses 4.2 applications, you should read the INSTALL
        document, and install the terminfo without the -x option.

tic: symbol lookup error: tic: undefined symbol: _nc_check_termtype2
? tic could not build /usr/share/terminfo
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ncurses-5.5/misc'
make[1]: *** [install.data] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
Creating compile log /var/log/sorcery/compile/ncurses-5.5.bz2 

Spells that encountered problems:
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ncurses
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Google finds:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2005-08/msg00022.html

> Seth
> 
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 12:55:21PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > ...and whoever came up with "bash.static" idea: thank you!
> > 
> > Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > >It looks like ncurses upgrade from 5.4 to 5.5 never works right because 
> > >after dispelling the old version sorcery fails to install a new one. The 
> > >reason is that new bash process can't be started, it misses ncurses 
> > >shared libs. The solution for now is to copy /sbin/bash.static to 
> > >/bin/bash and recast ncurses (and then bash).
> > >I tried it on two machines with test grimoire, both had the same problem.

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