MySQL Bugs: #30779: Incorrect dependency on libncurses when building on solaris platform

Bug #30779	Incorrect dependency on libncurses when building on solaris platform
Submitted:	4 Sep 2007 7:20	Modified:	29 Dec 2007 17:53
Reporter:	Rafal Somla	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.1.22	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Assigned Account	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
When building mysql-5.1 tree on solaris (sol10-sparc-a), with ndb enabled, it builds ndb binaries which use libncurses.so.5 library. However, this library is not present in the default library paths on that platform - instead, libcurses is avaliable. As a result, ndb can't be started due to unsatisfied library dependency.

This is a problem in configure script - it should either detect existence and use libcurses or setup compiler/linker so that correct path to libncurses is specified.

Related bugs: BUG#24350, BUG#24382

How to repeat:
Build mysql-5.1 on sol10-sparc-a, giving --with-ndbcluster option to configure. Then try to run storage/ndb/src/mgmserver/ndb_mgmd. Ld will complain about missing libncurses.so.5.

Suggested fix:
Workaround: set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib - the libncurses can be found there.

Tried with 

  configure --with-plugins=max

on sol10-sparc-c but couldn't reproduce it, 
ldd says that ndb_mgm was linked against libcurses,
not libncurses, just fine:

  libcurses.so.1 =>        /lib/libcurses.so.1

can you try to reproduce this on sol10-sparc-c
so that we can work on this on this support 
machine without interfering with builds on 
sol10-sparc-a?

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