[Slackbuilds-users] FreeBASIC installs broken

[Jude DaShiell]

The empty library idea doesn't work with fbc on 14.2.  fbc was looking
for a specific symbol it didn't find in that library.

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, B Watson wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:57:24
> From: B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: SlackBuilds.org Users List <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> To: SlackBuilds.org Users List <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] FreeBASIC installs broken
>
> On 12/10/20, thinkunix via SlackBuilds-users
> <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
> > Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >> Once installed running fbc to compile anything fbc complains it can't
> >> find
> >> libtinfo.so.5 and fails to compile anything.
> >> Does the SlackBuild file need some work?
> >
> > I ran into this a while ago and didn't spend much time on it.
> > The file it is looking for is installed in /usr/lib{64} but
> > fbc still has issues with it.
>
> Huh? Slackware 14.2 doesn't have libtinfo.so.anything.
>
> That library is the terminfo functions from libncurses. On 14.2, if
> your application links with libncurses.so, it already has those same
> functions (because they're not separated into their own lib, in 14.2's
> ncurses).
>
> > I think it's an issue with the source, not the slackbuild.
> > I had the problem on both Slackware 14.1 and 14.2 on both
> > 32 and 64 bit systems.
>
> I don't see any sources, just prebuilt binary packages... which
> were probably built on Debian or Ubuntu (or a Red Hat variant),
> meaning it was built on a system where the terminfo stuff is
> separated into libtinfo.so.
>
> One "quick & dirty" way to get past the libtinfo.so.5 issue would be
> to create an empty library. Probably this would work:
>
> # gcc -xc -shared -o/usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.5 /dev/null
>
> (replace lib64 with lib on 32-bit, of course)
>
> Another thing I've done in the past, use a symlink:
> # cd /usr/lib64
> # ln -s libncurses.so.5 libtinfo.so.5
>
> Both of these are "band-aid" solutions, not proper fixes.
>
> > Just download FreeBASIC-1.04.0, the version in SBo 14.1,
> > and build it.  It works fine.
>
> Hm. There's source for the version that's on SBo now, why does the
> build use binary packages instead of compiling from source?
>
> That's really a question for the maintainer. Dimitris Zlatanidis,
> hopefully you're reading this too.
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