From: justin <jlec@gentoo.org>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:47:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5130B183.9080901@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87obf35xei.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-01 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-28 9:59 [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs jlec
2013-02-28 20:59 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-03-01 7:48 ` justin
2013-02-28 21:50 ` Sven Joachim
2013-03-01 7:37 ` justin
2013-03-01 8:36 ` Sven Joachim
2013-03-01 13:47 ` justin [this message]
2013-03-01 17:04 ` Sven Joachim
2013-03-03 20:23 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-03-03 21:37 ` Sven Joachim
2013-03-01 15:50 ncurses detection for nconfig/menuconfig patches revised jlec
2013-03-01 15:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs jlec
2013-03-03 20:38 ` Yann E. MORIN
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