Re: macros for testing for curses library

[Bruno Haible]

Hello Reuben,

> what configuration tasks
> might one do vis-à-vis curses that would NOT be assisted by
> AX_WITH_CURSES?

See and compare the autoconf-archive macro [1] with the gettext macros
[2][3][4].

1) One may be interested only in the termcap API that is part of libncurses.
   Or one may be interested only in the terminfo API that is part of libncurses.
   Or one may be interested in the classical libcurses.
   Or one may be interested in a modern libncurses.

2) Some package may want to use the libncursesw because it supports wide
   characters. Some other package may not want this, because it implies a
   different API and ABI, and stick with the classical libncurses.

Bruno

[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf-archive.git;a=blob;f=m4/ax_with_curses.m4;hb=HEAD
[2] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob;f=gnulib-local/m4/curses.m4;hb=HEAD
[3] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob;f=gnulib-local/m4/termcap.m4;hb=HEAD
[4] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob;f=gnulib-local/m4/terminfo.m4;hb=HEAD
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