Hi,
I am trying to setup spew on my solaris 10 box, the dependency for spew is ncurses. However when i start compiling the ncurses-5.7 the compilation fails with error

gcc ../objects/tic.o ../objects/dump_entry.o -I../progs -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -D__EXTENSIONS__ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include/ncurses -O2 --param max-inline-insns-single=1200 -static -L../lib -lncurses -L../lib -lncurses -dynamic -o tic
ld: fatal: library -lc: not found
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to tic
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `tic'
Current working directory /Desktop/ncurses-5.7/progs
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'

I have exported the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib where my libncurses.so exists but no use.

please, any help on this is appreciated. this is my first time on solaris so if its a stupid mistake, please let me know..

Thanks in advance

The problem actually is a long-ago change to gcc, which used to honor a mixture of -static and -dynamic options. ncurses 5.9 drops that feature (does not attempt to mix library types).

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You can install a pre-compiled copy of ncurses 5.7 from sunfreeware

Check out http://www.sunfreeware.com/

If you are using SPARC/Solaris 10 then http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexsparc10.html
If you are using x86/Solaris 10 then http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexintel10.html
After downloading the package, gunzip it and then install it using pkgadd -d <file.local>

Hope this helps

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