emacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3 build fails at link stage

[anewman@…]

I have been trying to build/install emacs-app 23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3, Revision 1, aqua/emacs-app (Variants: universal, darwin_7, darwin_8) using MacPorts 1.6.0 running on Leopard (10.5.3 & 10.5.4). The compiler suite is Apple's gcc 4.0.1 from XCode 3.0. The source file was emacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3.tar.bz2 from <​http://downloads.sourceforge.net/emacs-app>.

I've submitted a ticket for this per suggestion of Chris.

As far as I can tell all build dependencies have been fulfilled, and ports has certainly stopped sniffing out uninstalled deps for emacs-app.

The build fails at link stage via undefined symbols in the object code with the following output:

<snip...>
emacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3.tar.bz2 from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/emacs-appemacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3.tar.bz2 from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/emacs-app
Undefined symbols:
  "_tgetflag", referenced from:
      _init_tty in term.o
      _init_tty in term.o
      _init_tty in term.o
Undefined symbols:
  "_tgetflag", referenced from:
      _init_tty in term.o
      _init_tty in term.o
      _init_tty in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _reset_sys_modes in sysdep.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [temacs] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [src] Error 2
*** Compilation failed. ***
Please examine the above output to determine what went wrong,
edit the configure options in this script (\'compile\') to fix it, and rerun.
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_aqua_emacs-app/work/emacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3/nextstep" && ./compile " returned error 1
Command output:       _tty_raw_cursor_to in term.o
      _tty_raw_cursor_to in term.o
      _tty_clear_to_end in term.o
      _tty_clear_to_end in term.o
      _tty_clear_to_end in term.o
      _tty_clear_frame in term.o
      _tty_clear_frame in term.o
      _tty_clear_frame in term.o
      _tty_clear_end_of_line in term.o
      _tty_clear_end_of_line in term.o
      _tty_clear_end_of_line in term.o
      _tty_clear_end_of_line in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _tty_ins_del_lines in term.o
      _reset_sys_modes in sysdep.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [temacs] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [src] Error 2
*** Compilation failed. ***
Please examine the above output to determine what went wrong,
edit the configure options in this script (\'compile\') to fix it, and rerun.

Superficially, it doesn't look like a missing libncurses problem, since a search for libncurses hows the following currently installed on my system (I recently upgraded both ncurses and ncursesw):

AlexN$ locate libncurses
/Applications/Gimp 1.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/Applications/Gimp 1.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libncurses.dylib.5
/Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libncurses.dylib
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/modules/libncurses_plugin.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/usr/lib/libncurses.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/libncurses.dylib
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/libncurses.a
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/libncurses.dylib
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/libncurses_g.a
/opt/local/lib/libncurses++.a
/opt/local/lib/libncurses++w.a
/opt/local/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libncurses.a
/opt/local/lib/libncurses.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libncursesw.5.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libncursesw.a
/opt/local/lib/libncursesw.dylib
/opt/local/var/macports/software/ncurses/5.6_0/opt/local/lib/libncurses++.a
/opt/local/var/macports/software/ncurses/5.6_0/opt/local/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/opt/local/var/macports/software/ncurses/5.6_0/opt/local/lib/libncurses.a
/opt/local/var/macports/software/ncurses/5.6_0/opt/local/lib/libncurses.dylib
/opt/local/var/macports/software/ncursesw/5.6_1/opt/local/lib/libncurses++w.a
/opt/local/var/macports/software/ncursesw/5.6_1/opt/local/lib/libncursesw.5.dylib
/opt/local/var/macports/software/ncursesw/5.6_1/opt/local/lib/libncursesw.a
/opt/local/var/macports/software/ncursesw/5.6_1/opt/local/lib/libncursesw.dylib
/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/libncurses5-shlibs_5.4-20041023-10_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/libncurses5_5.4-20041023-10_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/stable/main/finkinfo/base/libncursesw5.info
/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/base/libncursesw5.info
/sw/fink/debs/libncurses5-shlibs_5.4-20041023-10_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/fink/debs/libncurses5_5.4-20041023-10_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/lib/libncurses++.a
/sw/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/sw/lib/libncurses.a
/sw/lib/libncurses.dylib
/sw/lib/libncurses.dylib.5
/sw/lib/libncurses_g.a
/sw/lib/ncurses/libncurses.5.dylib
/sw/share/doc/libncurses5-shlibs
/sw/share/doc/libncurses5-shlibs/ANNOUNCE
/sw/share/doc/libncurses5-shlibs/INSTALL
/sw/share/doc/libncurses5-shlibs/MANIFEST
/sw/share/doc/libncurses5-shlibs/NEWS
/sw/share/doc/libncurses5-shlibs/README
/sw/share/doc/libncurses5-shlibs/TO-DO
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5-shlibs.list
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5-shlibs.shlibs
/Users/AlexN/darwinports/dports/print/teTeX/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/libs/ncurses/lib/libncurses.a
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
/usr/lib/libncurses.dylib

/opt/local is ahead of /sw/fink on my $PATH, so I don't think that's the problem.

The fact that gimp-app installed OK suggests (although doesn't prove) that it's not a problem from the Apple side of MacPorts.

Any thoughts on this problenm grealty appreciated.

TIA, Alex Newman.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Assigning to maintainer of emacs-app.

[cssdev]

Duplicate of #15949 ... this kind of error often occurs when the compiler builds with one version of a library's headers and links against a different version.

[(none)]

Milestone Port Bugs deleted

[columbusmonkey@…]

For the record, this may be related to the configure.in, that does the following:

    # Use fink packages if available.
    if test -d /sw/include && test -d /sw/lib; then
      GCC_TEST_OPTIONS="-I/sw/include -L/sw/lib"
      CPP="${CPP} ${GCC_TEST_OPTIONS}"
      NON_GCC_TEST_OPTIONS=${GCC_TEST_OPTIONS}
    fi

So I had to (temporarily) rename /sw to get emacs-app to install. Not sure what a proper fix would be.

[columbusmonkey@…]

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