[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/8442 scons: add portable=1 option, which forces linking to libncurses.so.5 an

[Ralph Versteegen]

I forgot to mention, while porting to Android I added a build flag to FB,
-DDISABLE_NCURSES, to compile without depending on ncurses or libtinfo.
That would completely eliminate the problem.


On 24 February 2017 at 14:52, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> We should definitely do that, although there are two potential problems:
>
> 1) the technicality that using lbifb.a compiled against headers for
> ncurses ABI 6 and linking to ncurses ABI 5 might cause a crash... but I
> just tested gfx_console, which uses vastly more of ncurses than libfb does,
> and even that works fine.
>
> 2) apparently Arch Linux doesn't have libncurses.so.5, because they are
> contrarian, and I see Linux From Scratch also lists it as optional, only if
> you need to run binary-only packages. But Ichiro has created an Arch Linux
> package, so we don't need to worry about that. Reading more, I found:
> - The latest version (5.0) of Linux Standard Base requires libncurses.so.5
> - Debian and Ubuntu have officially abandoned LSB because it's too much
> work to check they conform, but can still be expected to follow most of it
> (they provide libncurses.so.5)
> - ncurses actually has a configure option --with-abi-version=5, so it's
> still maintained
>
> So it's clear that portable=1 should not be the default for people
> compiling themselves.
>
> The list of library versions required by LSB 4.1 can be seen here:
> https://www.cendio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5828#c13
>
>
>
> On 24 February 2017 at 11:51, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> Nifty!
>>
>> Any reason I shouldn't turn portable=1 on for the nightly builds?
>>
>> ---
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 7:25 AM, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>>
>>> teeemcee
>>> 2017-02-23 07:25:26 -0800 (Thu, 23 Feb 2017)
>>> 200
>>> scons: add portable=1 option, which forces linking to libncurses.so.5
>>> and checks glibc/libstdc++/gcc version
>>>
>>> For me this enables building on slackware-current and running on
>>> 32-bit lubuntu 14.04 LTS.
>>> ---
>>> U   wip/SConscript
>>> U   wip/ohrbuild.py
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