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  • From: "Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] [SM-Discuss] [SM-USERS] Unable to perform rebuild of the system after installation...
  • Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:16:04 -0600

On 8/26/07, Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx> wrote:
> 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 Maybe installing a newer version of the CD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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Hi, I'm copying sm-users ML as well just in case...

So the thing is just to answer NO to the question about utf-8 support
raised by ncurses spell, right? If so then I can try installing
again, and when recompiling I answer NO to any utf-8 related question
associated with the ncurses spell.

I think the bug is still outstanding not only to stable, but also to
test, since I tried both (I tried changing from stable to test, before
recompiling just in case there was a version issue)... Is there a way
to get updates to the bug if one is not updating it, neither the one
who posted it?


Thanks a lot,


--
Javier




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