From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T22:55:54+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-1.6.8-preview4 compile fails in ncurses

In article <slrnb03c14.bd.jeremy@ganglion.demon.co.uk>, Jeremy Henty
(ie. me) wrote:

> Compiling ruby-1.6.8-preview fails with lots of undefined references
> when trying to build curses.  I have never had his problem with
> previous versions: 1.6.6 and 1.6.7 built straight out of the box.  I
> think I have upgraded glibc-* packages since I last tried to build
> ruby, so may be that is the reason?

Update: no it is not the reason.  I went back to the ruby-1.6.7
source, ran 'make distclean', then rebuilt.  No problem.  Did the same
in ruby-1.6.8-preview.  Same problem as before.

I notice that the ruby-1.6.8-preview build made the ruby executable
OK, but fell over compiling the first file of the first extension.
Which *suggests* that maybe the actual build for extensions is broken
rather than curses itself.  I will investigate further.

Jeremy Henty