Re: Termcap saga

[Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> After updating and reconfiguring from scratch on cygwin with
> --disable-dynamic I now get
>
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0xad): undefined reference to `_imp__tgetnum'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0xf1): undefined reference to `_imp__tgetflag'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0x134): undefined reference to `_imp__tgetstr'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0x27c): undefined reference to `_imp__tputs'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0x2ff): undefined reference to `_imp__tgoto'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0x30d): undefined reference to `_imp__tputs'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0x594): undefined reference to `_imp__tgetnum'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0x5e1): undefined reference to `_imp__tgetflag'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0x654): undefined reference to `_imp__tgetstr'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0xd0f): undefined reference to `_imp__tgetflag'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0xdb7): undefined reference to `_imp__tgetnum'
> Modules/termcap.o(.text+0xe42): undefined reference to `_imp__tgetstr'
>
> What do I do about this?  The link line is
>
> gcc -g   -o zsh.exe main.o zsh.res.o `cat stamp-modobjs`   -ltermcap -lm -L/g/bc01/bc01/devHost/HostStack -lzframe -lc
>
> (the extra library I added is irrelevant here).  Somehow the termcap module
> seems to think it has to import the symbols, which in this case it doesn't.

Well, on Monday I recompiled on cygwin, but without --disable-synamic. The
above symbols look O.K. to me - they belong to termcap (IIRC terminfo
versions are called tigetnum etc). What version of Cygwin and utilities
are you using?


> config.modules has
>
> name=zsh/termcap modfile=Src/Modules/termcap.mdd link=static auto=yes load=yes
> name=zsh/terminfo modfile=Src/Modules/terminfo.mdd link=static auto=yes load=yes
>

Unless you forced ncurses, it should not link terminfo. It did not in my
case (yesterday). But I did not do clean reconfigure - just make in build
directory (it did run config.status --recheck). I will be able to check on
Thursday.

> I haven't been following all this closely enough to see where the problem
> might be.  Should terminfo really be being linked if curses isn't in use?
>

No. I repeat, it did not (until recently) for me. But the above does not
look like terminfo stuff.

-andrej