[SM-Users] [SM-USERS] Unable to perform rebuild of the system after installation...

Javier Vasquez

2007-08-26 17:16:04 UTC

This ended up on the SM-USERS ML

Post by Javier Vasquez
Hi,
After installing smgl from iso 0.9.6.3 (current stable CD image), I've
tried to perform a rebuild as suggested by the end of the installation
process, and in all attempts what happens is that at the time of
ncurses copmpilation I get the error of libncurses.*.5.so not present.
After this error the system is useless since somehow bash, and all
the sorcery stuff (sorcery, cast, gaze, etc) seems to depend upon this
library.
I tried then to install, and just recompile some developing suite
(gcc, g++, gettext, texinfo, readline, auto-tools, make automake,
autoconf, nasm, etc...), and then recompiling ncurses, and this works
pretty nice. Then I continued recompiling the rest of te spells by
little groups, and everything went OK.
After recompiling the whole thing, then to confirm I just tried
recompiling ncurses only, and yet again I got the libncurses shared
library error. I have no clue on what could be affecting this. Maybe
the shared library is getting removed too early? I have no clue, but
I can't do much to find out since the system without useful prompt is
pretty much useless...
Notice I tried the same, but before recompiling changing the scribe
from stable to test, just in case it was a matter of the version of
some spell, but the result was yet again the same shared library
error.
Any hints about this? Please let me know what can be done as a
procedure to avoid this... Maybe installing a newer version of the CD
image?
smgl-0.9.6-x86-2.6.14.2-nptl-test4.iso.bz2

We should defaultly build ncurses with utf-8. And all new installations
should be set up this way. If you've already got ncurses and it's not
utf-8, then it shouldn't try to update it. The ratio of "I don't know
what" lost to complete system borkage isn't very good.
Basically what I mean is: anything gained by allowing the user to pick
utf8 vs non-utf8 isn't worth the potential system complete borkage.
I'm saying we should do something smart about it. Warn the everloving
crap out of the user if they try to change what it's built with. New
installations come with utf-8 enabled. The spell would make them answer
"UTF-8 support[n]? y"
"ARE YOU REALLY FREAKN SURE? THIS HAS MUCH POTENTIAL FOR BLOWING UP YOUR
COMPUTER AND ELECTING THE WORST LEADER YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE FOR
YOUR GOVERNMENT [n]? n"
"OK, you're safe. Have a nice day."
Same basic thing for going in the opposite direction.

This is possibly the same as
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13654
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Hi, I'm copying sm-users ML as well just in case...

So the thing is just to answer NO to the question about utf-8 support
raised by ncurses spell, right? If so then I can try installing
again, and when recompiling I answer NO to any utf-8 related question
associated with the ncurses spell.

I think the bug is still outstanding not only to stable, but also to
test, since I tried both (I tried changing from stable to test, before
recompiling just in case there was a version issue)... Is there a way
to get updates to the bug if one is not updating it, neither the one
who posted it?

Thanks a lot,

--
Javier