[McIDAS #JAX-852168]: McIDAS - Linking Error

Hi Ron,

> As you can see below, I've created two links.
> ron@resolute:/usr/lib> ls -alt libcurses*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    21 2006-01-18 08:04 libcurses.a -> 
> /usr/lib/libncurses.a
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    22 2006-01-18 08:04 libcurses.so -> 
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2005-10-05 08:35 libcurses.so.1 -> 
> libcurses.so.1.0.0

OK.  On my FC4 x86_64 system these links were made during the OS
installation.

> I'm still getting a linker error with curses.
> 
> ./mccomp -O -s -g77 -o mctext mct.o mct_ebuf.o mct_obuf.o mct_sbuf.o
> mct_win.o mct_winc.o mct_winx.o mcterm.o -L. -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lmcidas
> -lXt -lX11 -lcurses
> mccomp: Using default optimizations
> g77 -s -O -o mctext mct.o mct_ebuf.o mct_obuf.o mct_sbuf.o mct_win.o
> mct_winc.o mct_winx.o mcterm.o -L. -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> -lmcidas -lXt -lX11 -lcurses -ldl -lm
> /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libcurses.so when searching for -lcurses

The error is slightly different this time.  Notice the comment:

"skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libcurses.so when searching for -lcurses"

> /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libcurses.a when searching for -lcurses
> /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> cannot find -lcurses
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> link    mctext:                 FAILED
> 
> Suggestion?

I think that the curses library needs to be reinstalled.  RedHat and FC 
distributions
of Linux use RPM.  I am not sure what SuSE uses, but you need to do the 
reinstall
of curses before mctext will be able to link.

> Thanks,

Please let me know what happens after you reinstall the curses library.  Thanks!



Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: JAX-852168
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open