Comment # 22 on bug 1058509 from Dr. Werner Fink

(In reply to Michael Chang from comment #19)
> (In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #11)
> > (In reply to Torsten Duwe from comment #10)
> > > (In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #7)
> > > > (In reply to Torsten Duwe from comment #6)
> 
> > and as the linkter script /usr/lib64/libncurses.so and
> > /usr/lib64/libncursese.so to only link libtinfo or lintinfow as needed I do
> > not see for what this patch should resolve
> 
> It resolves the error in configure for detecting the availability of ncurses
> library.
> 
> configure:6159: result: no
> configure:6177: checking for wgetch in -lncurses
> configure:6202: gcc -o conftest -m32 -m32 -O0 -g -DNDEBUG -W -Wall
> -Wpointer-arith  -fno-reorder-functions -fno-stack-protector
> -fno-strict-aliasing -minline-all-stringops -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
> -fno-unwind-tables -static  -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow
> -Wpointer-arith -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -Wundef 
> conftest.c -lncurses   >&5
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_getch.o):
> In function `recur_wgetnstr':
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:368: undefined reference to `_nc_screen_of'
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:373: undefined reference to `_nc_globals'
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:373: undefined reference to `SP'
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:377: undefined reference to `_nc_mutex_lock'
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:382: undefined reference to `_nc_mutex_unlock'
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_getch.o):
> In function `recur_wrefresh':
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:346: undefined reference to `_nc_screen_of'
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:347: undefined reference to `_nc_globals'
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:347: undefined reference to `SP'
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:351: undefined reference to `_nc_mutex_lock'
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:356: undefined reference to `_nc_mutex_unlock'
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_getch.o):
> In function `_nc_ptr_Escdelay':
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:60: undefined reference to `_nc_prescreen'
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../lib/libncurses.a(lib_getch.o):
> In function `set_escdelay':
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/ncurses-6.1/ncurses/../ncurses/./base/lib_getch.
> c:91: undefined reference to `SP'

Read /usr/lib64/libncurses.so

  /* GNU ld script */
  INPUT(/lib64/libncurses.so.6 AS_NEEDED(-ltinfo -ldl))

... and note that with static linking the library libtinfo.a is missed

also the command

  pkg-config ncurses --libs

shows

  -lncurses -ltinfo

...