Has anyone got Micro working?

I have recently reinstalled OpenBSD, only to find that my editor of choice (micro) is not available via pkg_add and that the program itself fails when installed from ports, source, or from the tarball.

The error message is the following:

micro:./micro: undefined symbol 'syscall'
ld.so: micro: lazy binding failed!
The process was killed by SIGKILL: Killed

Now, there is an issue open about this on GitHub. Apparently, the bug is due to syscall(2) being removed in OpenBSD 7.5, which was released just over a year ago.

Since mle is failing to build without libc and I don't feel like using vim or mg, does anyone know any way of getting Micro to work again?

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☕️ dce

2025-06-23 · 10 months ago

2 Comments ↓

🚀 jsreed5 · 2025-06-23 at 21:19:

I ran into this problem when trying to install NNCP on OpenBSD. NNCP itself wasn't the issue; it's written in Go, and Go was using the disallowed syscall. The only remedy was to wait for a patch.

🐙 norayr · 2025-07-01 at 10:26:

are you writing about nncp compression initially written by bellard?