[Libguestfs] libguestfs error

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 05:05:30PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm getting following error while compiling libguestfs-1.26.1...
> 
>  CCLD     guestfish
> guestfish-progress.o: In function `progress_bar_init':
> /home/ubuntu/libguestfs-1.26.1/fish/progress.c:123: undefined reference to
> `tgetent'
> guestfish-progress.o: In function `progress_bar_set':
> /home/ubuntu/libguestfs-1.26.1/fish/progress.c:282: undefined reference to
> `tgetnum'
> /home/ubuntu/libguestfs-1.26.1/fish/progress.c:297: undefined reference to
> `UP'
> guestfish-progress.o: In function `fprintf':
> /usr/include/powerpc-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h:97: undefined reference to `UP'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

These symbols are provided by 'libtinfo' which is part of ncurses.

So you'll probably need to install that library, eg:

  yum install ncurses-devel
  apt-get install libtinfo-dev

Rich.

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