Re: sysutils/augeas - augtool gets killed if run in interactive mode

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 07:42:38PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2018/11/01 09:39, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 01:45:20AM +0000, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> > > $ augtool
> > > augtool:/usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.0: undefined symbol 'tgetent'
> > > ld.so: augtool: lazy binding failed!
> > > Killed
> > >
> > > Recent ld change?
>
> Yes. libreadline requires libtermcap but doesn't have an inter-library
> dependency. lld is unable to report the missing symbol at link time (as
> the old binutils linker did) so the autoconf test reports that the
> function exists / library is working, as a result augtool is built
> using this code. But it doesn't *really* work because there's a runtime
> failure as you see.
>
> There could be more instances of this in ports.

There probably are...

> > Fixed in current.
> > Thanks.
>
> Would it make sense to add -ltermcap instead? (I don't use augtool so no
> idea how useful readline support would be).

Sure if you prefer. I just went the easy way :-)

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Antoine