[Alpine-info] Can't compile V2.25 or 2.26 on Rocky 9.2

[David Morris via Alpine-info]

Update: I solved my operational issue with running Alpine on the new
system I'm provisioning. I built a 32-bit executable on my RHEL 5.3 system
and then copied all the 32-bit dependancies to my new Rocky 9.2 system.
It worked. Would still like to have a 64 bit executable for the future as
I had to disable SSL because I don't have the required openssl version.

On Sun, 4 Aug 2024, David Morris wrote:


>

> FYI Rocky is a linux distribution based on RH Enterprise Linux. Centos

> used to fill that role, but RedHat turned Centos into an advanced release

> sandbox...

>

> What I see running configure:

>    ...

>    checking for setupterm in -ltinfo... no

>    checking for setupterm in -lncurses... no

>    checking for setupterm in -lcurses... no

>    checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no

>    checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no

>    configure: error: Terminfo/termcap not found

> (in case it matters, this is from the 2.26 attempt)

>

> ncurses-6.2.8 is installed and the infocmp command exists and works.

>

> After some digging and comparing my systems, I noticed that ncurses is

> installed in /usr/lib64/ which suggests the problem is associated with the

> fact my system is a 64 bit system and hence a minimal /usr/lib/

>

> I tried looking at 'configure' but it has been too many years since I did

> any shell programming so I made no progress there. I previously tried to

> add support for the 32 bit programs but I think what I found was

> incomplete.

>

> I'd be happy to test any updates to configure, but have to put this on the

> back burner for not.

>

> Thanks,

>    David

>

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