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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:13:04 -0700
From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Klaus T. Aehlig" <aehlig@linta.de>
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Subject: Re: Interaction between devel/ncurses and lang/ruby18?
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:45:20 +0100
"Klaus T. Aehlig" <aehlig@linta.de> mentioned:

> 
> Hallo,
> 
> on my system, I have devel/ncurses installed. While upgrading
> (to a ports tree as of yesterday evening) I found that I couldn't
> build lang/ruby18. The error message complained that libncurses.a
> was not compiled with -fPIC.
> 
> Of course, adding the lines
> 
> .if !empty(.CURDIR:M*/ports/devel/ncurses*)
> CFLAGS += -fPIC
> .endif
> 
> to my /etc/make.conf and reinstalling devel/ncurses solved that problem.
> So my system is sound and safe. No worries there.
> 
> However, I still want to mention this, as devel/ncurses is not a dependency
> of lang/ruby18, neither directly nor indirectly. And the way an unrelated
> port is build should have no effect on the build process.
> 
> Has anybody observed something similar, or has an idea how such a thing could
> happen?
> 

Hmm, it should not depend on ncurses, and certainly it should not link against
a static library.  Can you please send me a build log of lang/ruby18?

Thanks!

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE

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