On 20 Oct 2016 17:19, Karel Zak wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 01:34:24PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote: > > For me it looks like the even the ncurses authors do not like their own > > pc files. Disabled by default and it's a pain to get them built with > > correct names and installed in the right location. Even --prefix does > > not work for their pc files. Plus the backward compatibility > > problem ... > > OK, I have applied: > https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/e5cc93b5a8854fce80537f86a244977df212dcb5 > > with ncurses-config and fallback to old good AC_CHECK_LIB. > > We can add fallback to pkg-config too, but it sounds like overkill if > ncurses-config is everywhere. ugh, this change makes things worse. the point of using pkg-config is also to get sane cross-compiling. by always running `xxx-config`, it now breaks cross-compiling. why can't we just tell distros to fix their ncurses install ? it's not like 2.29, released a month ago, is getting rolled out to old distros where people can't update their ncurses systems. "it's hard" is a pretty weak argument for distro maintainers. -mike
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