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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:47:47 +0100
From: justin <jlec@gentoo.org>
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To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs
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On 01/03/13 09:36, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Historically it seems to be an accident, and the ncurses{w,5}-config
> scripts should have better been shipped in their development packages.
> But nowadays we want to make the development packages multiarch-aware,
> and since the scripts differ on architectures, moving them away from
> ncurses-bin would mean adding two additional binary packages just for
> these scripts.
>=20
> See http://bugs.debian.org/480437 for a discussion on that topic.
>=20

I just tested on an ubuntu installation what happens with the patches
applied; you simply end up with the warning the you need to install the
dev package. So I don't see any problem here.

> Well, at least until nconf does not make any effort to explicitly detec=
t
> and use the wide API, trying ncurses5-config first should work.  If you=

> build ncurses yourself with --enable-widec, there is no -lmenu or -lpan=
el
> anyway, these libraries are called menuw and panelw then.

You are right, we only should consider ncurses5-config right now.

Regards,
Justin


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