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

[Mathijs Kwik]

Why whould you want to do this instead of using a symlink?


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 27/07/13 20:14, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> It's a directive for the linker to use libncursesw instead of libncurses.
>  On a
> Fedora 13 machine I see these INPUT directives as well, e.g.:
>
> /usr/lib64/libbfd.so:INPUT ( /usr/lib64/libbfd.a -liberty -lz )
> /usr/lib64/libcurses.so:INPUT(-lncurses)
> /usr/lib64/libcursesw.so:INPUT(-lncursesw)
> /usr/lib64/libncurses.so:INPUT(libncurses.so.5 -ltinfo)
> /usr/lib64/libncursesw.so:INPUT(libncursesw.so.5 -ltinfo)
> /usr/lib64/libopcodes.so:INPUT ( /usr/lib64/libopcodes.a -lbfd )
>
> etc.
>
> However, Fedora and Ubuntu don't seem to unify libncurses and libncursesw.
>
> --
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