From owner-cvs-all Fri Nov 16 9:54:41 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6716437B416 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:54:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9843 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2001 17:53:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Nov 2001 17:53:52 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011116202627.X25527-100000@delplex.bde.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:54:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Bruce Evans Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/release/alpha fixit_crunch.conf src/release/ Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 <>< 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