[fpc-devel] Missing library

[Jonas Maebe]

On 05 Jul 2011, at 22:38, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> Miklos Cserzo wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> fpc 2.4.2 gives the following error on SuSE 11.4. What is the name of the missing package?
>> "fp: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
> 
> Since nobody else has answered: Google suggests that this is part of ncurses, previous discussion has been inconclusive as to whether this is an FPC or a SuSE problem. I've never seen it on Debian or Slackware, which suggests the latter.


Actually, the problem is that the libgdb used in the Linux version of the textmode IDE was built on an old SuSE release. It appears that this old SuSE release is one of the only (or last) distributions ever that had a libtinfo.so.5 library. In most (or all) other distributions, its functionality is part of libcurses itself. As a result, afaik the textmode IDE currently only works on very few distros. It would probably be best if it were rebuilt on a different system. See comment 0014986 of http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=9734 for more info.


Jonas