[Nix-dev] .so file containing INPUT(...)

[Mathijs Kwik]

Ludo, as you are maintainer for ncurses in nixpkgs, can you shed a light on
this?

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix#L44


On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm upgrading the expression for wine to the latest version and
> investigating some (optional) dependencies wine claims to be missing.
>
> One of these is ncurses. Tracing the configure phase I found that our
> libncurses.so is a text file containing "INPUT(-lncursesw)"
>
> From the ncurses expression this seems to have been done deliberately and
> it's been there for a long time. On my system, I could not find other
> packages that use something similar, so I'm wondering what it's for and if
> it can be the cause for "gcc ... -lncurses" failing in wine's configure.
>
> Thanks,
> Mathijs
>
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