Bug#556378: libncurses5-dev: Impossible to build a program with -static

["H.-M. Junitz" <rajunitz@web.de>]

Package: libncurses5-dev
Version: 5.7+20081213-1
Severity: important

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The fault is completely independent of the kernel - or debian-version.

Building a program using libnurses of the type shared objects, *.so, runs 
without error or warnings (using -Wall). But using the static version 
produces these messages:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): 
In function `load_gpm_library':
(.text+0x6eb): undefined reference to `dlopen'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): 
In function `load_gpm_library':
(.text+0x713): undefined reference to `dlsym'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): 
In function `load_gpm_library':
(.text+0x73b): undefined reference to `dlsym'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): 
In function `load_gpm_library':
(.text+0x75f): undefined reference to `dlsym'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): 
In function `load_gpm_library':
(.text+0x783): undefined reference to `dlsym'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): 
In function `load_gpm_library':
(.text+0x7da): undefined reference to `dlclose'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): 
In function `enable_gpm_mouse':
(.text+0x832): undefined reference to `dlclose'
collect2: ld gab 1 als Ende-Status zurück

The severity is important, because you are forced to have ncurses installed on 
a computer, or the program will not run.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libncurses5-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]      2.7-18lenny1   GNU C Library: Development 
Librari
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal 
hand

libncurses5-dev recommends no packages.

libncurses5-dev suggests no packages.

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