Re: Final versions of ncurses libs detection patches

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Justin, All,

On Wednesday 06 March 2013 jlec@gentoo.org wrote:
> I am sorry for the long delay.
> Final versions of the patches which are reduced to the usage of pkg-config. And
> if unavailable we use the old code.

On Ubuntu Quantal, ncurses is indeed compiled with tinfo as a separate
lib, but these two patches are not needed, because libncurses has proper
(NEEDED) on libtinfo:

  $ readelf -d /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5.9 |grep tinfo
  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libtinfo.so.5]

If I just configure ncurses with:
  $ ./configure --with-termlib --with-shared --without-normal && make
  $ readelf -d lib/libncurses.so.5.9 |grep tinfo
  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libtinfo.so.5]

I wonder how you configured your ncurses.

But anyway, even in that cse, using pkg-config when available is better
than using our previous legacy checks.

I'm still doing a few more tests on my side before queuing.

> Thanks for all suggestions,

Thanks for staying around during the iterations.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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