[vim/vim] Vim cannot find libtinfo.so.6 upon a fresh errorless compilation on Ubuntu 18.04 (with libtinfo.so.5) (Issue #11633)

godot11

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Nov 28, 2022, 7:44:25 AM11/28/22

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Steps to reproduce

Compiling VIM on Ubuntu 18.04 with libtinfo.so.5 results in an errorless compilation, but the built executable does not work and crashes with error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Either VIM does not realize the incorrect version of libtinfo.so, or it should be compatible but it doesn't find it and looks for libtinfo.so.6 only.

Reproduction:

Clone VIM and install it's requirements as listed in vim/INSTALL file:

mkdir ~/vim-complie; cd ~/vim-complie
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
sudo apt update
sudo apt install make clang libtool-bin libxt-dev libgtk-3-dev libpython3-dev

Configure, build and install to a local folder:

cd vim
./configure --prefix=$HOME/Software/vim --enable-python3interp --enable-perlinterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-luainterp --enable-tclinterp --enable-terminal --enable-gui
make
make install

This will successfully build and install the executable. The only place with an error is make install, but it will go on nonetheless. Log: https://pastebin.com/N1eBZvvA

executing the newly built VIM will throw an error and exit:

$ $HOME/Software/vim/bin/vim
/home/nagyg/Software/vim/bin/vim: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Expected behaviour

VIM should launch without issue, or an error should happen in the configuration/compilation phase, not after the executable was seemingly successfully built.

Version of Vim

github/master

Environment

Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04
terminal: Konsole 17.12.3
$TERM=xterm-256color

(base) nagyg -> ldconfig -p | grep libtinfo
        libtinfo.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5
        libtinfo.so.5 (libc6) => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5
        libtinfo.so.5 (libc6) => /lib32/libtinfo.so.5
        libtinfo.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so

Logs and stack traces

./configure, make and make install logs: https://pastebin.com/N1eBZvvA

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Bram Moolenaar

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Nov 28, 2022, 2:30:34 PM11/28/22

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Ubuntu 18.04 is old, you should at least upgrade to 20.04.

It's probably some weird configuration that configure isn't able to handle. I could not open the build logs.
Please check src/auto/config.log for any hints.

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Christian Brabandt

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Nov 29, 2022, 7:30:01 AM11/29/22

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FWIW:
I checked the dependencies on Debian, and this seems to be dragged in from some other dependencies:

 % apt-rdepends --build-depends vim |grep -B20 "^\s*Build-Depends: libtinfo"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Deep recursion on subroutine "main::show_rdepends" at /usr/bin/apt-rdepends line 382.
[...]
libedit-dev
  Build-Depends: libtinfo-dev
python2.7
[...]
  Build-Depends: libtinfo-dev
ldc
[...]
  Build-Depends: libtinfo-dev
python2.7-dev
[...]
  Build-Depends: libtinfo-dev

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Darless

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Jan 3, 2023, 9:02:08 PM1/3/23

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Just tried to reproduce this using ubuntu:18.04 docker image and the error was not present:

# Enter into docker
docker run -it ubuntu:18.04 bash

# Within the container
mkdir ~/vim-complie; cd ~/vim-complie
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
apt update && apt install git
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim
./configure --prefix=$HOME/Software/vim --enable-python3interp --enable-perlinterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-luainterp --enable-tclinterp --enable-terminal --enable-gui
make install

# Running VIM works without issues
root@81a41e693e5c:~/vim-complie/vim# /root/Software/vim/bin/vim --version >/dev/null && echo $?
0

LDD shows that libtinfo.so.5 is available

root@81a41e693e5c:~/vim-complie/vim# ldd /root/Software/vim/bin/vim | grep info
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f3d307e6000)

In the failure case, do an ldd of the binary and see what libraries are not found.