I'm trying to use make install, and I get error:
cannot find -lcurses
In my /usr/lib/curses/ I have two files: libcurses.so and libcurses.a.
So I do have that library, gcc just doesn't see it. I've read almost everything I can find but still couldn't make this work.
Any help would be appreciated.
This is output:
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libcurses.so when searching for -lcurses
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:125: recipe for target 'samtools' failed
make: *** [samtools] Error 1
Note: I've read every similar topic on this website, so please, don't mark this as duplicate.
The linker says:
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: \
skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libcurses.so when searching for -lcurses
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses
You are performing a 64-bit build, but the the only libcurses.so the linker
can find is 32-bit, so it is skipped.
It is unclear from your several postings how this 32-bit /usr/lib/libcurses.so got
there. The official latest openSUSE
curses runtime package is libncurses5-5.9-53.4.x86_64.rpm. The official latest developent package is ncurses-devel-5.9-53.4.x86_64.rpm.
If you install either of these packages, they do not place any 32-bit binaries under /usr/lib, so I surmise
that your /usr/lib/libcurses.so got there in some unorthodox way.
Delete this /usr/lib/libcurses.so. Install the ncurses-devel rpm from your distribution's package manager,
e.g.zypper install ncurses-devel. To make sure you have done it successfully, check that /usr/lib64/libncurses.so exists afterwards.
Then in your makefile change:
LIBCURSES= -lcurses
to:
LIBCURSES= -lncurses
You will find that this change is described in paragraph 3 of the samtools INSTALL file.