Re: error message relating to tgetnum

["Maria Nelson" <pineapple225@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Thanks for following my progress with building gpsim. It seems that I
had previously broken some dependencies while working on other builds.
Upon a fresh Debian installation, the build process of gpsim was
actually relatively painless.

Maria


On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Maria Nelson <pineapple225@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks, I'll look into it.
>
> Maria
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi Maria,
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 07:11:19PM -0800, Maria Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> While building gpsim, I've been getting the error message:
>>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
>>
>> Well, for starters this indicates that you're building against a
>> locally-installed version of readline that doesn't come from the Debian
>> package. (and which, furthermore, appears to be mis-linked.)
>>
>> You should figure out why you have locally-installed core libraries and find
>> another solution to your original problem so that you can remove these from
>> the system path; then this build failure should go away on its own.
>>
>> Alternatively, you can set up a chroot build environment (using, e.g., the
>> pbuilder package) and do your test builds there.
>>
>> --
>> Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
>> Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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>> slangasek@ubuntu.com                                     vorlon@debian.org
>>
>>
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