[alsa-devel] builidng alsa-utils

[Clemens Ladisch]

Vinod Koul wrote:
> I was trying to build alsa-utils (lib built fine) but it seems stuck on
> libpanelw.
> ...
> checking for ncursesw5-config... yes
> checking for curses library... ncursesw
> checking for curses header name... <ncurses.h>
> checking for curses compiler flags... -I/usr/include/ncursesw
> checking for curses NLS support... yes
> ...
> checking for new_panel in -lpanelw... no
> configure: error: panelw library not found
>
> And I have panelw
>
> $ locate libpanelw
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw.so.5
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw.so.5.9
>
> And created symbolic link
>
> $ ll /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    40 Jan 19 15:14 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw.so -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw.so.5
>
> Any reasons this would happen?

So it works now?  That missing link would appear to be a bug of your
distribution's package.

> Btw if it do
> ./gitcompile --with-curses=ncurses --disable-xmlto
> it works fine

This does not uses libpanelw but libpanel (which apparently exists).
(w = wide-character support for non-ASCII locales)


Regards,
Clemens