Re: make fails to find libncurses.so.5 on Solaris 8

> I am trying to compile teTeX 2.0.2 on a Solaris 8 box with the Companion
> Software (which provides the SFWncur package), but it's failing during make
> with "ld.so.1: ./makedoc: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file
> or directory"

If you don't need texinfo, just
  ./configure --without-texinfo
and it should work...

There are two applications that need some curses library: tcdialog and
texinfo. One important thing anout teTeX is that --with-ncurses-libdir
and --with-system-ncurses only affects tcdialog, not texinfo.

The texinfo package in teTeX is 100% the same as the original
texinfo distribution, so you might as well report your problem to
[email protected]. My guess is that you can solve your problem by
running configure the following way:
  CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/sfw/include LDFLAGS='-L/opt/sfw/lib -R/opt/sfw/lib' ./configure --with-system-ncurses

> Why is there a "no such file" error when I've explictly defined the path to it?

The linker on Solaris makes a difference between link-time and run-time
(-L option and -R option) path. Somehow, the compile-time linker has
found the library; the run--time linker later did not find it. You might
report this as a bug for the texinfo package.

Thomas