Re: [Nano-devel] building fails for lack of libncurses-dev but configure does not fail

[mtsio]

On 02/01/2018 10:51 μμ, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> Op 02-01-18 om 19:44 schreef mtsio:
> > I tried to build this version and after configure finished without 
> > errors, I ran make which complained that couldn't find "curses.h" (or 
> > something similar). So, I installed libncurses-dev and run configure 
> > again and make without errors. But, I suppose configure should give 
> > an error about this (?)
>
> Configure does give a warning when it can't find any curses header files.
> I don't know how this detection of slang and/or curses actually works.
> If you have suggestions or a patch for how to do this better... I'm all
> ears.
>
> Benno

I changed configure.ac to give an error instead of a warning and 
slightly the error message.

fail-config-curses.patch
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