Installing R13B02-1: Questions on curses and gcc

[Roger Price-6]

Hi, Sorry if these are FAQs. I am trying to install R13B02-1 on
opensuse 11.0.

The following curses libraries are installed
# locate ncurses
/lib/libncurses.so.5
/lib/libncurses.so.5.6
/lib/libncursesw.so.5
/lib/libncursesw.so.5.6
/lib64/libncurses.so.5
/lib64/libncurses.so.5.6
/lib64/libncursesw.so.5
/lib64/libncursesw.so.5.6

but when I try to configure with the command

    script -c "./configure" configure.log

the log ends with
checking for kstat_open in -lkstat... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
configure: error: No curses library functions found

Question 1: Which curses library do I need for R13B02-1?

I tried configuring without termcap:

    script -c "./configure --without-termcap" configure.log

but now the log ends:

checking size of long long... 8
checking if we should add -fno-tree-copyrename to CFLAGS for
computed gotos to work properly... yes
checking for broken gcc-4.3.0 compiler... yes
configure: error: This gcc miscompiles the Erlang runtime system;
                   please use a different version

The README says "gcc-4.3.0 has a serious optimizer bug. It produces
an Erlang emulator that will crash immediately. The bug is supposed
to be fixed in gcc-4.3.1."

My gcc is at version 4.3.1:

# gcc --version
gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036]

Question2: Which gcc do I need to compile R13B02-1?

Roger

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[Michael McDaniel-4]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:39:46PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:

> Hi, Sorry if these are FAQs. I am trying to install R13B02-1 on opensuse
> 11.0.
>
> The following curses libraries are installed
> # locate ncurses
> /lib/libncurses.so.5
> /lib/libncurses.so.5.6
> /lib/libncursesw.so.5
> /lib/libncursesw.so.5.6
> /lib64/libncurses.so.5
> /lib64/libncurses.so.5.6
> /lib64/libncursesw.so.5
> /lib64/libncursesw.so.5.6
>
> but when I try to configure with the command
>
>    script -c "./configure" configure.log
>
> the log ends with checking for kstat_open in -lkstat... no
> checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
> configure: error: No curses library functions found
>
> Question 1: Which curses library do I need for R13B02-1?
>
> I tried configuring without termcap:
>
>    script -c "./configure --without-termcap" configure.log
>
> but now the log ends:
>
> checking size of long long... 8
> checking if we should add -fno-tree-copyrename to CFLAGS for computed
> gotos to work properly... yes
> checking for broken gcc-4.3.0 compiler... yes
> configure: error: This gcc miscompiles the Erlang runtime system;
>                   please use a different version
>
> The README says "gcc-4.3.0 has a serious optimizer bug. It produces an
> Erlang emulator that will crash immediately. The bug is supposed to be
> fixed in gcc-4.3.1."
>
> My gcc is at version 4.3.1:
>
> # gcc --version
> gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036]
>
> Question2: Which gcc do I need to compile R13B02-1?
>
> Roger
>

________________________________________________________________


 Perhaps you need to install libncurses5-dev

 Don't know about which gcc is required for R13B02-1 but
 for R13B01 I used

   $ gcc --version
   gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3

 and it worked fine.

~Michael


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[tip-bot for Mikael Pettersson]

Roger Price writes:
 > Hi, Sorry if these are FAQs. I am trying to install R13B02-1 on
 > opensuse 11.0.
 >
 > The following curses libraries are installed
 > # locate ncurses
 > /lib/libncurses.so.5
 > /lib/libncurses.so.5.6
 > /lib/libncursesw.so.5
 > /lib/libncursesw.so.5.6
 > /lib64/libncurses.so.5
 > /lib64/libncurses.so.5.6
 > /lib64/libncursesw.so.5
 > /lib64/libncursesw.so.5.6

These are ncurses runtime libraries.

 > but when I try to configure with the command
 >
 >     script -c "./configure" configure.log
 >
 > the log ends with
 > checking for kstat_open in -lkstat... no
 > checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
 > checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
 > checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
 > checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
 > configure: error: No curses library functions found
 >
 > Question 1: Which curses library do I need for R13B02-1?

You need the ncurses development packages, which contain
include files and sometimes additional library files. They
would typically be called something like ncurses-dev or -devel.

 > I tried configuring without termcap:
 >
 >     script -c "./configure --without-termcap" configure.log
 >
 > but now the log ends:
 >
 > checking size of long long... 8
 > checking if we should add -fno-tree-copyrename to CFLAGS for
 > computed gotos to work properly... yes
 > checking for broken gcc-4.3.0 compiler... yes
 > configure: error: This gcc miscompiles the Erlang runtime system;
 >                    please use a different version
 >
 > The README says "gcc-4.3.0 has a serious optimizer bug. It produces
 > an Erlang emulator that will crash immediately. The bug is supposed
 > to be fixed in gcc-4.3.1."
 >
 > My gcc is at version 4.3.1:
 >
 > # gcc --version
 > gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036]

Note that it says "prerelease". The bug in question (PR tree-optimization/36339)
was fixed on the gcc-4_3-branch 2008-05-28 in revision 136101.

You need a gcc update.

 > Question2: Which gcc do I need to compile R13B02-1?

Most gcc versions work, so use whatever your Linux vendor tests and ships.
If they ship broken crap like gcc-4.3.0 and don't offer updates, use gcc-4.3.4
or gcc-4.4.2.

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[Roger Price-6]

Thanks Michael, Thanks Mikael, I installed ncurses-devel and
used broken gcc 4.3.1 to compile gcc 4.3.2 which is acceptable to
R13B02-1 configure.

Roger

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> You need a gcc update.
> > Question2: Which gcc do I need to compile R13B02-1?
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