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

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 02-01-18 om 23:01 schreef mtsio:
> On 02/01/2018 10:51 μμ, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I changed configure.ac to give an error instead of a warning and slightly the 
> error message.

Well... the thing is: there's probably a reason why it gives just a warning
and does not fail with an error.  Possibly some other implementations of
curses (maybe on the BSDs?) cannot (or could not) be detected reliably?

But I agree that indeed ./configure should fail when it cannot detect a
curses library (when not configured with --with-slang), so I will apply
a patch similar to yours and we'll see on what platforms things break.

I'm guessing you are Michail Tsiolkas?  (For a Reported-by tag.)

Benno