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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:49:56 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/release/alpha fixit_crunch.conf src/release/
Message-ID:  <20011116202627.X25527-100000@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011114115717.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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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.

> 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).

Bruce


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