From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: justin <jlec@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs
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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:04:25 +0100
In-Reply-To: <5130B183.9080901@gentoo.org> (justin's message of "Fri, 01 Mar
	2013 14:47:47 +0100")
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On 2013-03-01 14:47 +0100, justin wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> See http://bugs.debian.org/480437 for a discussion on that topic.
>> 
>
> 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, in Debian/Ubuntu are _two_ dev packages, one for the wide API
(libncursesw5-dev), and on for the non-wide API (libncurses5-dev).  Only
the latter should be necessary, but with your original patch people
would need to install the former as well.

>> Well, at least until nconf does not make any effort to explicitly detect
>> and use the wide API, trying ncurses5-config first should work.  If you
>> build ncurses yourself with --enable-widec, there is no -lmenu or -lpanel
>> anyway, these libraries are called menuw and panelw then.
>
> You are right, we only should consider ncurses5-config right now.

That seems unlikely to cause regressions on its own.

Cheers,
       Sven
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