ncurses detection for nconfig/menuconfig patches revised

ncurses detection for nconfig/menuconfig patches revised

[jlec]

Hello,

After the discussion I modified the patches to respect following things

1. Don't remove the legacy detection
2. use helpers in following order: 
	pkg-config, ncurses5-config, ncurses6-config, old heuristic
3. only support the wide char implementation for menuconfig


Regards,
justin

[PATCH 1/2] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[jlec]

From: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>

When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from
libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one
additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so. Ncurses provides a config script
(ncurses5-config) or in very recent version even a pkg-config module to assist
finding ncurses.

The old heuristic for detection of ncurses libs will be extended to the
pkg-config and the config scripts.

Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
---
 scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
index 8078813..8086874 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
 # What library to link
 ldflags()
 {
+	pkg-config --libs ncursesw 2>/dev/null && exit
+	pkg-config --libs ncurses 2>/dev/null && exit
+	ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
+	ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
+	ncursesw6-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
+	ncurses6-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
 	for ext in so a dll.a dylib ; do
 		for lib in ncursesw ncurses curses ; do
 			$cc -print-file-name=lib${lib}.${ext} | grep -q /
-- 
1.8.1.4

Re: [PATCH 1/2] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Yann E. MORIN]

Justin, All,

On Friday 01 March 2013 jlec@gentoo.org wrote:
> When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from
> libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one
> additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so. Ncurses provides a config script
> (ncurses5-config) or in very recent version even a pkg-config module to assist
> finding ncurses.
> 
> The old heuristic for detection of ncurses libs will be extended to the
> pkg-config and the config scripts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
> index 8078813..8086874 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
> @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
>  # What library to link
>  ldflags()
>  {
> +	pkg-config --libs ncursesw 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	pkg-config --libs ncurses 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	ncursesw6-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	ncurses6-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit

In the light of the different mails on the subject, it appears that the
ncurses*-config script are unreliable: at least one major distribution
(Debian) is broken and, for various reasons, is not gonna fix it, and
all its derivatives (eg. Ubuntu) do suffer from the same deficiency.

I think we should stick to:
  - try with pkg-config;
  - fallback to the legacy heuristic.

Does using pkg-config fix your use-case?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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Re: [PATCH 1/2] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Justin]

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On 03.03.2013 21:36, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
Hello,
> 
> In the light of the different mails on the subject, it appears that the
> ncurses*-config script are unreliable: at least one major distribution
> (Debian) is broken and, for various reasons, is not gonna fix it, and
> all its derivatives (eg. Ubuntu) do suffer from the same deficiency.

Indeed the config scripts come without the necessary build time deps.
But it ends in the same situation as current version of the Makefile.
The user will be asked to install the devel package.
So I don't see any problem here.

> 
> I think we should stick to:
>   - try with pkg-config;
>   - fallback to the legacy heuristic.
> 
> Does using pkg-config fix your use-case?

It does, nevertheless I would prefer to include the ncurses*-config
script as well to cover most situation we will find on users system.

Justin


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[PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[jlec]

From: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>

When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from
libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one
additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so. Ncurses provides a config script
(ncurses5-config) or in very recent version even a pkg-config module to assist
finding ncurses.

This patch makes use of it to detect the necessary libs for linking of the
ncurses nconfig dialog

Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
---
 scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
index 231b475..cc81db5 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
@@ -219,7 +219,11 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_gconf.o	= `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0` \
 
 HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf   = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
 
-HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses
+HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel
+HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	+= $(shell \
+				pkg-config --libs ncurses 2>/dev/null \
+				|| ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null \
+				|| ncurses6-config --libs 2>/dev/null  )
 $(obj)/qconf.o: $(obj)/.tmp_qtcheck
 
 ifeq ($(qconf-target),1)
-- 
1.8.1.4

Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Yann E. MORIN]

Justin, All,

On Friday 01 March 2013 jlec@gentoo.org wrote:
> When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from
> libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one
> additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so. Ncurses provides a config script
> (ncurses5-config) or in very recent version even a pkg-config module to assist
> finding ncurses.
> 
> This patch makes use of it to detect the necessary libs for linking of the
> ncurses nconfig dialog
> 
> Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> index 231b475..cc81db5 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> @@ -219,7 +219,11 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_gconf.o	= `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0` \
>  
>  HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf   = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
>  
> -HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses
> +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel
> +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	+= $(shell \
> +				pkg-config --libs ncurses 2>/dev/null \
> +				|| ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null \
> +				|| ncurses6-config --libs 2>/dev/null  )

Ditto as for menuconfig: drop the ncurses*-config scripts, and:
  - try pkg-config;
  - fallback to -lncurses.

HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	+= $(shell \
				pkg-config --libs ncurses 2>/dev/null \
				|| echo -lncurses )

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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[PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[jlec]

From: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>

When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from
libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one
additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so.

Ncurses provides a config script (ncurses5-config) to assist finding ncurses.
This patch makes use of it to detect the necessary libs for linking of the
ncurses nconfig dialog.

Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
---
 scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
index 3091794..c372976 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
@@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_gconf.o	= `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0` \
 
 HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf   = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
 
-HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses
+HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel
+HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	+= $(shell    ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null \
+				   || ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null  )
 $(obj)/qconf.o: $(obj)/.tmp_qtcheck
 
 ifeq ($(qconf-target),1)
-- 
1.8.1.4

Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Yann E. MORIN]

Justin, All,

On Thursday 28 February 2013 jlec@gentoo.org wrote:
> When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from
> libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one
> additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so.
> 
> Ncurses provides a config script (ncurses5-config) to assist finding ncurses.
> This patch makes use of it to detect the necessary libs for linking of the
> ncurses nconfig dialog.

I've queued that one in my tree, now, in branch yem-kconfig-for-next:
    https://www.gitorious.org/linux-kconfig/linux-kconfig

Thank you! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[justin]

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On 28/02/13 21:59, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> I've queued that one in my tree, now, in branch yem-kconfig-for-next:
>     https://www.gitorious.org/linux-kconfig/linux-kconfig
> 


Thanks for queuing, but with the points which Sven mentioned we should
first agree on a way to detect things.

The simplest option which might only be present at very recent distro
versions is using pkg-config.
Second best is ncurses*5-config. There we have the strange situation
that "ncurses-bin" contains the config scripts although no build time
dependencies are installed along.
Third, we might only find either of nurses{,w}5-config.
And at last we might face the situation where the new ABI is used and
the script is named ncurses{,w}6-config.

Ugly but working would be a simple "||" chain. This would create
problems on debian/ubuntu which needs to be solved.

Any other suggestions how we can solve the problem?


Thanks
justin


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Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Sven Joachim]

On 2013-02-28 10:59 +0100, jlec@gentoo.org wrote:

> Ncurses provides a config script (ncurses5-config) to assist finding ncurses.
> This patch makes use of it to detect the necessary libs for linking of the
> ncurses nconfig dialog.

That script is not necessarily called ncurses5-config, it might also be
called ncurses6-config is ncurses is configured for a different ABI
(--enable-ext-colors, --enable-ext-mouse).  Although I would suspect
that any distribution who does that provides a compatibility symlink.

>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> index 3091794..c372976 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> @@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_gconf.o	= `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0` \
>  
>  HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf   = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
>  
> -HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses
> +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel
> +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	+= $(shell    ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null \
> +				   || ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null  )

This will link with ncursesw, not ncurses.  Probably not what you want,
since nconf.h does not #include the right headers for that.

On Debian/Ubuntu, there's also the problem that ncursesw5-config exists
even if the libncursesw5-dev package is not installed, so this patch
makes the build fail in such cases.

Can we just call ncurses5-config and not ncursesw5-config, or are there
any distros who ship the latter and not the former?

Cheers,
       Sven

Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[justin]

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On 28/02/13 22:50, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2013-02-28 10:59 +0100, jlec@gentoo.org wrote:
> 
>> Ncurses provides a config script (ncurses5-config) to assist finding ncurses.
>> This patch makes use of it to detect the necessary libs for linking of the
>> ncurses nconfig dialog.
> 
> That script is not necessarily called ncurses5-config, it might also be
> called ncurses6-config is ncurses is configured for a different ABI
> (--enable-ext-colors, --enable-ext-mouse).  Although I would suspect
> that any distribution who does that provides a compatibility symlink.
>

We don't do that, but I rechecked with building ncurses manually. You
are right. How widely spread is the usage of this options? Or is it
rather an experimental option?
What we could do is simple extending the syntax to additionally check
for the ABI version 6 config scripts. Is this an option to consider?

>>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>> index 3091794..c372976 100644
>> --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>> @@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_gconf.o	= `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0` \
>>  
>>  HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf   = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
>>  
>> -HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses
>> +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel
>> +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	+= $(shell    ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null \
>> +				   || ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null  )
> 
> This will link with ncursesw, not ncurses.  Probably not what you want,
> since nconf.h does not #include the right headers for that.
> 

That's true, and again it would change two things at once. I will go
back to simple -lncurses as it was before.

> On Debian/Ubuntu, there's also the problem that ncursesw5-config exists
> even if the libncursesw5-dev package is not installed, so this patch
> makes the build fail in such cases.

Will be solved when reverting as described above. But actually it smells
like a bug in the package management, doesn't it? Why are build time
config scripts shipped in runtime only packages? What is their purpose?

> 
> Can we just call ncurses5-config and not ncursesw5-config, or are there
> any distros who ship the latter and not the former?
> 

I can't talk about distro wide situation, but manual building gives only
one of the two. So there might be a situation where only one of the two
is present.

It seems we have a little dilemma here. Any suggestions how to solve it?


Thanks,
Justin


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Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Sven Joachim]

On 2013-03-01 08:37 +0100, justin wrote:

> On 28/02/13 22:50, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2013-02-28 10:59 +0100, jlec@gentoo.org wrote:
>> 
>>> Ncurses provides a config script (ncurses5-config) to assist finding ncurses.
>>> This patch makes use of it to detect the necessary libs for linking of the
>>> ncurses nconfig dialog.
>> 
>> That script is not necessarily called ncurses5-config, it might also be
>> called ncurses6-config is ncurses is configured for a different ABI
>> (--enable-ext-colors, --enable-ext-mouse).  Although I would suspect
>> that any distribution who does that provides a compatibility symlink.
>>
>
> We don't do that, but I rechecked with building ncurses manually. You
> are right. How widely spread is the usage of this options? Or is it
> rather an experimental option?

Pretty much, since it changes the ABI and everyone wants to be
compatible with the existing ncurses ABI.

> What we could do is simple extending the syntax to additionally check
> for the ABI version 6 config scripts. Is this an option to consider?

Probably.

>>>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 4 +++-
>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>>> index 3091794..c372976 100644
>>> --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>>> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>>> @@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_gconf.o	= `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0` \
>>>  
>>>  HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf   = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
>>>  
>>> -HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses
>>> +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel
>>> +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	+= $(shell    ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null \
>>> +				   || ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null  )
>> 
>> This will link with ncursesw, not ncurses.  Probably not what you want,
>> since nconf.h does not #include the right headers for that.
>> 
>
> That's true, and again it would change two things at once. I will go
> back to simple -lncurses as it was before.
>
>> On Debian/Ubuntu, there's also the problem that ncursesw5-config exists
>> even if the libncursesw5-dev package is not installed, so this patch
>> makes the build fail in such cases.
>
> Will be solved when reverting as described above. But actually it smells
> like a bug in the package management, doesn't it? Why are build time
> config scripts shipped in runtime only packages? What is their purpose?

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.

>> Can we just call ncurses5-config and not ncursesw5-config, or are there
>> any distros who ship the latter and not the former?
>> 
>
> I can't talk about distro wide situation, but manual building gives only
> one of the two. So there might be a situation where only one of the two
> is present.
>
> It seems we have a little dilemma here. Any suggestions how to solve it?

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.

Cheers,
       Sven

Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[justin]

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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.
> 
> 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, 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.

Regards,
Justin


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Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Sven Joachim]

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

Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Yann E. MORIN]

Sven, Justin, All,

Sorry for the delay...

On Thursday 28 February 2013 Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2013-02-28 10:59 +0100, jlec@gentoo.org wrote:
> 
> > Ncurses provides a config script (ncurses5-config) to assist finding ncurses.
> > This patch makes use of it to detect the necessary libs for linking of the
> > ncurses nconfig dialog.
> 
> That script is not necessarily called ncurses5-config, it might also be
> called ncurses6-config is ncurses is configured for a different ABI
> (--enable-ext-colors, --enable-ext-mouse).  Although I would suspect
> that any distribution who does that provides a compatibility symlink.

Cygwin does provide nurses{,w}{5,6}-config.

> >  scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> > index 3091794..c372976 100644
> > --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
> > @@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_gconf.o	= `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0` \
> >  
> >  HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf   = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
> >  
> > -HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses
> > +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel
> > +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	+= $(shell    ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null \
> > +				   || ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null  )
> 
> This will link with ncursesw, not ncurses.  Probably not what you want,
> since nconf.h does not #include the right headers for that.
> 
> On Debian/Ubuntu, there's also the problem that ncursesw5-config exists
> even if the libncursesw5-dev package is not installed, so this patch
> makes the build fail in such cases.

The same goes for ncurses5-config, which is provided by ncurses-bin, and
so is present even if the devel package is not installed, and the build
will break, too.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Sven Joachim]

On 2013-03-03 21:23 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> On Thursday 28 February 2013 Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2013-02-28 10:59 +0100, jlec@gentoo.org wrote:
>
>> >  scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 4 +++-
>> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>> > index 3091794..c372976 100644
>> > --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>> > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>> > @@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_gconf.o	= `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0 libglade-2.0` \
>> >  
>> >  HOSTLOADLIBES_mconf   = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(check-lxdialog) -ldflags $(HOSTCC))
>> >  
>> > -HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses
>> > +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	= -lmenu -lpanel
>> > +HOSTLOADLIBES_nconf	+= $(shell    ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null \
>> > +				   || ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null  )
>> 
>> This will link with ncursesw, not ncurses.  Probably not what you want,
>> since nconf.h does not #include the right headers for that.
>> 
>> On Debian/Ubuntu, there's also the problem that ncursesw5-config exists
>> even if the libncursesw5-dev package is not installed, so this patch
>> makes the build fail in such cases.
>
> The same goes for ncurses5-config, which is provided by ncurses-bin, and
> so is present even if the devel package is not installed, and the build
> will break, too.

This is not the same: if libncurses5-dev is not installed, the build is
going to fail anyway, since there is no -lmenu or -lpanel then.

I second the proposal to try pkg-config and fall back to -lncurses, BTW.

Cheers,
       Sven