[New-bugs-announce] [issue38318] Issues linking with ncurses and tinfo (cannot resolve symbols)

[Michael Everitt]

New submission from Michael Everitt <michael at 2e0cer.net>:

tinfo library detection as part of ncurses is inconsistent, and causes build failure when expected symbols aren't found at link-time.
This breaks compilation of the 'readline' module as the attached log shows.
It seems to work in some configurations and not others, different arches and libc's seem to be affected differently (suspect linker variations).
It would appear that uclibc-ng triggers this failure consistently, as I have verified on both x86_64 and armv7a Arches.

See https://bugs.gentoo.org/692128 for further details.

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components: Build
files: file_692128.txt
messages: 353523
nosy: veremitz
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Issues linking with ncurses and tinfo (cannot resolve symbols)
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.6
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file48631/file_692128.txt

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