David,
Strange! When I rebuilt with rpm --rebuild ncurses* everything started
working. I did notice that the standard syntax with ld is -lncurses and
this does not work properly unless you rebuild. Looks like a bug. You
may want to check.
:-)
Jeff
David Mosberger wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> >>>>> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:46:00 -0600, "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> said:
>
> Jeff> Anyone know if ncurses has been ported to IA64? The SKI/NUE
> Jeff> IA64 simulator at www.linuxia64.org doesn't have it, and the
> Jeff> NUE emulator does not include it in the IA64 rootfs image they
> Jeff> are distributing.
>
> Hmmh, I have to say I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing
> here. Ski/NUE has been released by HP and Intel and is available via
> a free download from http://software.hp.com/ia64linux/. If you have a
> slow Internet connection, you can order CD-ROM from the same URL. The
> CD-ROM is free, as well (even shipping is free).
>
> Jeff> The documentation states, ".... You now have everything
> Jeff> necessary to get started with serious IA64 development ...".
> Jeff> Wonder why ncurses was not included?
>
> Jeff> :-)
>
> But it is there:
>
> $ rpm -qlp nue-fs-1.0-1.i386.rpm | grep ncurses
> /nue/usr/include/ncurses.h
> /nue/usr/lib/libncurses.a
> /nue/usr/lib/libncurses.so
> /nue/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4
> /nue/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.2
> /nue/usr/lib/libncurses_g.a
> /nue/usr/lib/libncurses_p.a
>
> Can you tell me why you think otherwise?
>
> In any case, like Jes explained, rebuilding the ncurses RPM inside NUE
> is easy so even if you have the need to recompile ncurses, you should
> be all set.
>
> On a related note: it's probably better to send such questsions to
> lia64-sim@linux.hpl.hp.com or to use the online forum at
> http://devresource.hp.com/devresource/Topics/ia64linux.html as we
> don't always have time to keep up with the high volume on
> linux-kernel.
>
> --david
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