Anyone know of a decent autoconf macro for detecting the right header
and library for curses/ncurses?
Here is the issue I have seen. Many systems ship curses.h and
libcurses. Sometimes this may actually be ncurses, sometimes not. Then
I sometimes on those same systems I see ncurses.h and libncurses
installed as a 3rd party library to support some programs which may
require ncurses and not the system curses implementation.
It is not immediately obvious to me what the correct set of checks
should be to
a) generally pair up the right header file with the right library
b) make it semi-convenient for the user to pick which curses
implementation he/she wants if there is a system curses as well as an
add-on ncurses available.
I could to AC_CHECK_LIB([curses],[main]) and then only do
AC_CHECK_LIB([ncurses],,[main]) if the -lcurses test fails. Then
AC_CHECk_HEADERS([curses.h ncurses.h]) and use cpp to try curses.h first
and then ncurses.h but this doesn't really provide user control.
Suggestions?
Thanks
-Dan
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