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holms
Asked: 2011-02-10 05:51:07 +0800 CST

psybnc on nas: ncurses problem

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Trying to get compile psybnc on NAS. ipkg is default package manager in here. I've installed ncurses already, it's in /opt/lib (libncurses.so) 

[\w] # ls /opt/lib | grep ncurses
libncurses.so
libncurses.so.5
libncurses.so.5.7
libncursesw.so
libncursesw.so.5
libncursesw.so.5.7

[\w] # file libncurses.so.5.7
libncurses.so.5.7: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped

I added this path to /etc/profile

[\w] # echo $PATH     
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/opt/lib

So trying to make menuconfig gives me this error

[\w] # make menuconfig
Initializing Menu-Configuration
[*] Running Conversion Tool for older psyBNC Data.
Using existent configuration File.
[*] Running Autoconfig.
System: Linux
Socket Libs: Internal.
Environment: Internal.
Time-Headers: in time.h and sys/time.h
Byte order: Big Endian.
IPv6-Support: Yes, general support. But no interface configured.
async-DNS-Support: Yes.
SSL-Support: No openssl found. Get openssl at www.openssl.org
Creating Makefile
[*] Creating Menu, please wait.
This needs the ncurses library. If it is not available, menuconf wont work. If you are using curses, use make menuconfig-curses instead.
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1

Same goes for make menuconfig-curses

[\w] # make menuconfig-curses 
Initializing Menu-Configuration using Curses
[*] Running Conversion Tool for older psyBNC Data.
Using existent configuration File.
[*] Running Autoconfig.
System: Linux
Socket Libs: Internal.
Environment: Internal.
Time-Headers: in time.h and sys/time.h
Byte order: Big Endian.
IPv6-Support: Yes, general support. But no interface configured.
async-DNS-Support: Yes.
SSL-Support: No openssl found. Get openssl at www.openssl.org
Creating Makefile
[*] Creating Menu, please wait.
This needs the curses library. If it is not available, menuconf wont work.
make: *** [menuconfig-curses] Error 1

Psybnc compiled ok, just wanna work with menuconfig instead of configuration file.

linux network-attached-storage

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    With a help of my FRIEND, I finally know what's happend.

    First of all ncurses-dev need to be installed on NAS if you want to compile any package who have dependencies, you need headers of those dependencies and ncurses-dev packages have them

    so 

    ipkg install ncurses-dev

    then go edit Makefile in you source directory and add CFLAGS like this:

    CCFLAGS = -I/opt/include -I/opt/include/ncurses

    this path is path of header files you need, that's why autoconf tools couldn't find them. but you need to put cflags to gcc as param, because autotools ingnores overrided variables...

    so I just opened Makefile and added $(CCFLAGS) like param and that's it, now it works!!

      $(CC) $(CCFLAGS) menuconf/menuconf.c menuconf/inputbox.c menuconf/util.c menuconf/checklist.c menuconf/menubox.c menuconf/textbox.c src/snprintf.c -I. -lncurses -lm -o menuconf/menuconf
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  2. The curses library is not installed, since you did not provide us with the information what kind of NAS (Model / Vendor) this is we cannot help you more in detail.

    If there is a package of curses for the Distribution on that NAS of that Vendor you could install it.

    Or you'd just use the config and a text editor.

    Update

    If you're sure you have setup the Libraries correctly you might try setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH manually to /opt/lib. Also have a look at the Makefile and make the corresponding ($CC) line more verbose.

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