Re: curses(3) symlink is not installed when building out of tree

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 06:59:48PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> When building ncurses out of tree, the curses(3) symlink to the ncurses
> manpage does not get installed.  See the attached test script which
> prints
> 
> Only in /tmp/in-tree.<XXXXXX>/usr/share/man/man3: curses.3ncurses
> 
> on my system (on non-Debian systems, it will be curses.3x instead what
> is missing).
> 
> Looking at the ncurses-doc package on snapshot.debian.org, this feature
> has been broken at least since the 20130119 patchlevel, but more likely
> since its introduction in the 20110910 patchlevel.

hmm - not quite that old.  I have a tree under /usr/local/ncurses which isn't
packaged (but not purged) that has that link created in September 2012.  Most
of my attention has been on the test-packages, of course, rather than
non-package builds.

I'll take a look and see how to improve this :-)
 
> Besides Debian, at least Fedora seems to be affected. In Debian, I have
> been creating the missing symlink myself since somebody had asked for it
> in https://bugs.debian.org/859293.
> 
> Cheers,
>        Sven
> 

> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> 
> DIR1=$(mktemp -d /tmp/in-tree.XXXXXX)
> DIR2=$(mktemp -d /tmp/out-of-tree.XXXXXX)
> 
> ./configure --with-install-prefix="$DIR1" --with-manpage-format=normal
> make install.man
> 
> [ -d build ] || mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure --with-install-prefix="$DIR2" --with-manpage-format=normal
> make install.man
> 
> diff -qr "$DIR1" "$DIR2"
> # rm -rf "$DIR1" "$DIR2"


-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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