Ticket #12934 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 12 months ago

Last modified 12 months ago

Build libtermcap*.so instead of (or in addition to) libtermcap.a

Reported by: was Owned by: tbd
Priority: critical Milestone: sage-5.1
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Description (last modified by jdemeyer) (diff)

Some components of Sage, e.g., libsingular, link in the systemwide libtermcap.so dynamically instead of statically linking the libtermcap.a that is built by the Sage termcap spkg. This is a *big problem* when building a binary on a system that has libtermcap.so and trying to run it on another system that does not have that so.

Solution?: Modifying the spkg-install script for termcap so it also builds the so libraries.

  • See also #12725, which changes the termcap spkg...

Change History

comment:1 Changed 12 months ago by jdemeyer

  • Description modified (diff)

The version of termcap in Sage (i.e. the official upstream version) does not support building shared libraries. So, I am a bit surprised to see the file libtermcap.so appear on your system. Could you try whether the spkg from #12725 fixes the problem? i.e. build termcap from #12725 and then rebuild Singular and check whether local/lib/libsingular.so still links against libtermcap.so

comment:2 Changed 12 months ago by was

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to wontfix

As described this can't be fixed, so "wontfix".

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