[Libguestfs] compile libguestfs 1.19.35

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:24:14PM +0800, 周涛 wrote:
> after change the source file dbdump.c, "make" leads to :
> make  all-am
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/libguest_test/libguestfs-1.19.35/fish'
> make -C ../generator stamp-generator
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/libguest_test/libguestfs-1.19.35/generator'
> make[4]: `stamp-generator' is up to date.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/libguest_test/libguestfs-1.19.35/generator'
>   CCLD   guestfish
> guestfish-progress.o: In function `progress_bar_init':
> /home/libguest_test/libguestfs-1.19.35/fish/progress.c:121: undefined reference to `tgetent'
> guestfish-progress.o: In function `progress_bar_set':
> /home/libguest_test/libguestfs-1.19.35/fish/progress.c:274: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
> /home/libguest_test/libguestfs-1.19.35/fish/progress.c:279: undefined reference to `UP'
> /home/libguest_test/libguestfs-1.19.35/fish/progress.c:279: undefined reference to `tputs'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

This one's quite common -- it should probably be a FAQ.

It happens because you have the libtinfo library missing:

$ nm -D /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.5.9 | grep tgetnum
0000003520012350 T tgetnum
$ nm -D /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.5.9 | grep UP
0000003520228e68 B UP

This library is part of ncurses.  Make sure ncurses-devel is installed
(or whatever the equivalent is on your distro, maybe libncurses-dev),
and then you *must* rerun ./configure.

Rich.

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