ncurses: use linker scripts for libncurses(w)

Some software (e.g. util-linux-ng) assumes that symbols from -ltinfo
will be added when it is linked against -lncurses.  This breaks when
linkerflags are containing --no-copy-dt-needed-entries which is the case
e.g. in Fedora 13+.

This patch replaces the libncurses.so symlink with a linkerscript which
adds -ltinfo.  To do things in a consistant manner, the patch rewrites
most parts of 9e58422868a03eeafa72781477174850d1c5abe7.

NOTE: it might require a 'bitbake ncurses -c clean' to see an effect
because staging on updates does not change a symlink (libncurses.so) to a
regular file.

Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>

diff --git a/recipes/ncurses/ncurses-5.7/libtermcap.so b/recipes/ncurses/ncurses-5.7/libtermcap.so
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index f74f993..0000000
--- a/recipes/ncurses/ncurses-5.7/libtermcap.so
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-INPUT(-ltinfo)

diff --git a/recipes/ncurses/ncurses_5.7.bb b/recipes/ncurses/ncurses_5.7.bb
index f7aac33..7a52370 100644 (file)
--- a/recipes/ncurses/ncurses_5.7.bb
+++ b/recipes/ncurses/ncurses_5.7.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
 SECTION = "libs"
 PATCHDATE = "20100501"
 PKGV = "${PV}+${PATCHDATE}"
-PR = "r13"
+PR = "r13+1"
 
 DEPENDS = "ncurses-native unifdef-native"
 DEPENDS_virtclass-native = "unifdef-native"
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/ncurses/ncurses-${PV}.tar.gz;name=tarball \
         ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.7/ncurses-5.7-${PATCHDATE}.patch.gz;name=p20100501 \
         file://tic-hang.patch \
         file://config.cache \
-        file://libtermcap.so \
 "
 
 SRC_URI[tarball.md5sum] = "cce05daf61a64501ef6cd8da1f727ec6"
@@ -163,7 +162,23 @@ do_install() {
                 mv ${D}${bindir}/reset ${D}${bindir}/reset.${PN}
         fi
 
-        install -p -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/libtermcap.so ${D}${libdir}/
+
+        # create linker scripts for libcurses.so and libncurses to
+        # link against -ltinfo when needed. Some builds might break
+        # else when '-Wl,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries' has been set in
+        # linker flags.
+        for i in libncurses libncursesw; do
+               f=${D}${libdir}/$i.so
+                test -h $f || continue
+                rm -f $f
+                echo '/* GNU ld script */'  >$f
+                echo "INPUT($i.so.5 AS_NEEDED(-ltinfo))" >>$f
+        done
+
+        # create libtermcap.so linker script for backward compatibility
+        f=${D}${libdir}/libtermcap.so
+        echo '/* GNU ld script */' >$f
+        echo 'INPUT(AS_NEEDED(-ltinfo))' >>$f
 }
 
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