Re: NetBSD 1.4.2/i386 needs to link psql with -ltermcap

Giles Lean writes:

> char readline();
>
> int main() {
> readline()
> ; return 0; }
> configure:3165: gcc -o conftest -O2 -pipe     conftest.c -ledit  1>&5
> configure:3192: checking for library containing using_history
> configure:3210: gcc -o conftest -O2 -pipe     conftest.c -ledit  1>&5
> ...
>
> It would be nicer if the link failed. :-(
>
> Actually running the program above:
>
> /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_tgetent" called from
> conf:/usr/lib/libed\ it.so.2.2 at 0x4002d2ac

This looks to be an oddly behaving linker.  Maybe this is a better
question for a netbsd user forum.

> ldd doesn't show problems:
>
> conf:
>         -ledit.2 => /usr/lib/libedit.so.2.2 (0x4001b000)
>         -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12.40 (0x4002f000)

How about ldd libedit?

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