Re: building ROOT 5.26 with editline on Fedora 13

Hi Kazuyoshi,

On 29 May 2010 23:49, Kazuyoshi Furutaka <furutaka_at_jb3.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [furutaka_at_Peart root_v5.27.02]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
> Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
> [furutaka_at_Peart root_v5.27.02]$ uname -p
> x86_64
> [furutaka_at_Peart root_v5.27.02]$ file -L /usr/lib64/libncurses.so
> /usr/lib64/libncurses.so: ASCII text
> [furutaka_at_Peart root_v5.27.02]$ cat /usr/lib64/libncurses.so
> INPUT(libncurses.so.5 -ltinfo)
> [furutaka_at_Peart root_v5.27.02]$ ls /lib64/libncurses*
> /lib64/libncurses.so.5    /lib64/libncursesw.so.5
> /lib64/libncurses.so.5.7  /lib64/libncursesw.so.5.7
> [furutaka_at_Peart root_v5.27.02]$ rpm -qf /lib64/libncurses*
> ncurses-libs-5.7-7.20100130.fc13.x86_64
> ncurses-libs-5.7-7.20100130.fc13.x86_64
> ncurses-libs-5.7-7.20100130.fc13.x86_64
> ncurses-libs-5.7-7.20100130.fc13.x86_64
> [furutaka_at_Peart root_v5.27.02]$ file -L /lib64/libncurses.so.5|grep '64-bit'
> /lib64/libncurses.so.5: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
>
> So the 64-bit check in the configure doesn't work...
>
> The corresponding static library IS detected by the script.
> (ncurses-static)
>

That works! But I still couldn't follow everything you said. Does that mean there is a bug in the fedora ncurses-devel package ? Instead of a symlink its a ASCII text file?

> Kazuyoshi
>
> From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ROOT] building ROOT 5.26 with editline on Fedora 13
> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 19:47:49 -0700
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> On Saturday 29 May 2010 06:21 PM, John Idarraga wrote:
>>> Hello Ali,
>>>
>>> Make sure you have the 'ncurses-dev' or 'ncursesw-dev' package
>>> installed.  I think you will get the libs installed at /usr/lib64.
>>> Then
>>> use
>>>
>>
>> I have ncurses-devel, installed. I think I mentioned that in my
>> earlier message. The output from configure actually finds the headers
>> but not the libraries:
>>
>> Checking for ncurses.h, or curses.h ... /usr/include/ncurses
>> Checking for libncurses, or libcurses ... no
>>
>> To build I extract the source tarball in a directory in my home, and
>> set ROOTSYS=<build_dir>/root and configure. Hopefully I am not doing
>> anything wrong while setting up the build environment. :-\
>>
>> --
>> Suvayu
>>
>> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>>
> --
> Kazuyoshi Furutaka
> furutaka_at_jb3.so-net.ne.jp
>

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.