Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:54:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/release/alpha fixit_crunch.conf src/release/ Message-ID: <XFMail.011116095417.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011116202627.X25527-100000@delplex.bde.org>
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On 16-Nov-01 Bruce Evans wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> On 14-Nov-01 John Baldwin wrote: >> > ... >> > Log: >> > The new libedit from a while back depends on ncurses, so put -ledit >> > before >> > -lncurses so the fixit crunch binary links. >> > ... >> >> Ok, head scratching time. My test x86 release did finish fine w/o this, so >> it >> seems only alpha needs this. FWIW, it seems that libedit just needs >> libtermcap >> judging by other lines in the release output, so I could change this to just >> put -ledit instead of -ltermcap if desired. > > libtermcap is (bogusly) just a link to libncurses, so using the wrong one > works too well and it's hard to tell whether the superset one (libncurses) > is required. Hmm. >> Anyone know why the alpha version >> would fail to link but x86 would work fine? Both are current from just a >> few >> days ago. Also, fwiw, the boot crunch has libedit very early and links with >> libncurses but not with libtermcap. > > I don't know, but guess it is just due to a slightly different set of > binaries in the alpha version (mainly ee instead of vi). Ah, ok. Hmm, I wonder then if x86 even needs libedit? I'll try a test release w/o it to see. > Bruce -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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