avrdude has broken dependency to libtinfo.so.5 from ncurses-5

[gagara]

avrdude from Arduino-1.8.0 has broken dependency to libtinfo.so.5.

$ ldd avrdude 
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc2507f000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007fcb13f1c000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fcb13d00000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcb13a04000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => not found
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcb1366b000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fcb14124000)

[matthijskooijman]

I believe that dependency should be supplied by the system, just like all of the other dependencies that are fulfilled. On Debian systems this file is present in the libtinfo5 package.

[gagara]

On gentoo I currently have ncurses-6.x installed and avrdude-6.3 (installed from portage) currently linked to it w/o any problem (i.e. libtinfo.so.6).
I'm not sure, but if you are distributing precompiled binaries shouldn't you use static linking in this case (to be sure that they are not depend on system env)?

[julgonmej]

libtinfo.so.5 is not on Archlinux repos. If arduino needs to use its own avrdude version it should include the correct libraries too.

[NicoHood]

@theloko ArchLinux uses its own avrdude from the upstream sources. Please read the wiki carefully can install arduino-avr-core.

@gagara I think the issue was already in previous versions. You are however right that the libs should be packed static for the binary release of arduino.

[facchinm]

The problem has reappeared after moving the jenkins slave from Ubuntu 12.04 to Debian 7 in order to fix #5430.
Distros packaging libtinfo6 are usually shipping a compat library to avoid these kind of problems (search for ncurses5-compat or similar).
Moving the issue to arduino/avrdude-build-script#4