Re: best way to install ncurses version 6.5 with version 5 support is not very clear in the 12.2 systemd linux from scratch book
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On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 21:22 +0200, Rainer Fiebig wrote: > Am 25.09.24 um 17:24 schrieb Nick Gawronski ([email protected] via > lfs-support Mailing List): > > / snip / > > > > What I was not sure about and from reading these messages it looks > > > like version 6 support is installed first and then it looks like you > > > then clean up the sources and rebuild it with version 5 support and > > > then install the version 5 support. I thought it was all the same > > > thing as from cleaning up the package and adding the option to > > > configure yes the version 5 support is built and installed but I was > > > not aware that these were two separate installations, one for version > > > 6 and then the other one for version 5 using the two commands in the > > > book. > [Paragraph inserted for clarity] > > > Perhaps saying this in the book like if you wish to install > > > version 5 support you need to clean up the sources but this will not > > > remove version 6 support that was just installed. Nick Gawronski > I don't think that anything really _needs_ to be added to the note. IMO > it is clear enough and the instructions are rather self-explanatory. The problem I can see is the lack of an explanation for --with-abi- version=5 (i.e. it *changes* the ABI version, not *appending* an ABI version). Arguably this can be even more puzzling for the optional libcrypt.so.1 in libxcrypt (--enable-obsolete-api=glibc vs. --enable-obsolete-api=no even more sounds like "appending" something instead of changing something). > From own experience I can say that it pays to carefully read the > instructions and to insist on trying to understand them. Man/info-pages > often provide invaluable help here. In this case the INSTALL file in the ncurses source tree clearly explains --with-abi-version=. Well but in the chroot we don't have a thing to view the text file yet... -- Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/info/lfs-support Unsubscribe: See the above information page