problem with ncurses6.4

[steve williams]

installing gnucobol03.20rc2 with ncurses6.4 gives the following make error

steve@steve-IdeaPad-3-15IAU7:~/Desktop/gnucobol-3.2-rc2$ make > makelog
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_tputs.o): warning: relocation against `ospeed' in read-only section `.text'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_addch.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `TABSIZE' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:569: libcob.la] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:656: all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:564: all] Error 2

makelog shows no error

[Simon Sobisch]

It looks like it true to link against a static version of ncurses.

Is there any difference if you explicit configure with --enable-shared --disable-static? [I don't know, so I'm asking]

Where did you got that ncurses from?

[Anonymous]

configure with --enable-shared --disable-static > no change

I think I got it from github.

I'm going to try an earlier version of ncurses.

[Simon Sobisch]

Before trying that, try to re-configure ncurses using those options.

[steve williams]

same error with both ncurses6.4 and ncurses6.3 both with the re-configure
I got them from invisibleisland

[Simon Sobisch]

So you did re-configure both ncurses and GnuCOBOL?

[Anonymous]

yes. both on gnucobol 3.2-rc2 and on ncurses 6.4 and 6.3 after make distclean

[steve williams]

ncurses ./configure --with-shared

works