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"Digital Man"  writes:

>   To: Daniel
>   Re: Re: ls returned 1 exit status
>   By: Daniel to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Jun 29 2021 04:57 pm
>
>  > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
>  >
>  > Daniel  writes:
>  >
>  > > "Digital Man"  writes:
>  >
>  > >>   To: Daniel
>  > >>   Re: ls returned 1 exit status
>  > >>   By: Daniel to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sun Jun 27 2021 01:29 am
>  > >>
>  > >>  > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
>  > >>  >
>  > >>  > Digitalman
>  > >>  >
>  > >>  > Attempting to compile/install latest syncterm after upgrading my box
>  > to >>  > the latest ubuntu lts. Errors out, here's a sample of the output:
>  > >>  >
>  > >>  > /usr/bin/ld:
>  > /home/daniel/syncterm-20210627/src/syncterm/ripper.c:14499: >>  > undefined
>  > reference to `vstat'
>  > >>  > /usr/bin/ld:
>  > /home/daniel/syncterm-20210627/src/syncterm/ripper.c:14502: >>  > undefined
>  > reference to `vstatlock'
>  > >>  > /usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/syncterm.o: in function
>  > `main': >>  > /home/daniel/syncterm-20210627/src/syncterm/syncterm.c:1484:
>  > undefined
>  > >>  > reference to `aspect_fix'
>  > >>  > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>  > >>  > make: *** [GNUmakefile:111: gcc.linux.x64.exe.debug/syncterm] Error 1
>  > >>
>  > >> Do you have the wide version of the ncurses dev package installed?
>  > >> http://packages.debian.org/stable/libncursesw5-dev
>  >
>  > > Yessir
>  >
>  > > $ sudo apt install libncursesw5-dev
>  > > Reading package lists... Done
>  > > Building dependency tree
>  > > Reading state information... Done
>  > > libncursesw5-dev is already the newest version (6.2-0ubuntu2).
>  > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>  >
>  > By the way, I spend the majority of my time on the commandline.
>
> Look further back in the build output for the *first* error that is
> displayed. Is the first error reported about that vstat definition in
> ripper.c?

Looks like ripper.c

Here's the output:

Linking gcc.linux.x64.exe.debug/syncterm
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o: in function `rv_reset':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7646: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7647: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7648: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7649: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o: in function `rv_termset':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7901: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7902: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7905: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7917: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7959: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7960: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7961: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7962: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:7963: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o: in function `reinit_screen':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:9776: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:9777: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:9778: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:9778: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:9778: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:9779: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o:/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:9780: more undefined references to `vstat' follow
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o: in function `reinit_screen':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:9797: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o: in function `do_rip_command':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10409: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10410: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10410: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10415: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10415: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10415: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o:/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10415: more undefined references to `vstat' follow
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o: in function `do_rip_command':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10417: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10459: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10460: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10460: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10465: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10465: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10465: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o:/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10465: more undefined references to `vstat' follow
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o: in function `do_rip_command':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10467: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10505: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10506: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10507: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10508: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10563: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10564: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10564: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10569: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10569: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10569: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o:/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10569: more undefined references to `vstat' follow
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o: in function `do_rip_command':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:10571: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:11093: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:11094: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:11097: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:11109: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:11552: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:11555: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:11556: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:11559: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:12816: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:12817: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:12818: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:12819: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/ripper.o: in function `init_rip':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:14494: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:14495: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:14499: undefined reference to `vstat'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/ripper.c:14502: undefined reference to `vstatlock'
/usr/bin/ld: gcc.linux.x64.obj.debug-mt/syncterm.o: in function `main':
/home/daniel/syncterm-20210701/src/syncterm/syncterm.c:1484: undefined reference to `aspect_fix'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [GNUmakefile:111: gcc.linux.x64.exe.debug/syncterm] Error 1
-- 
Daniel
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