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Re: [Nano-devel] building fails for lack of libncurses-dev but configure


From: mtsio
Subject: Re: [Nano-devel] building fails for lack of libncurses-dev but configure does not fail
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 18:39:30 +0200
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On 03/01/2018 01:22 μμ, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

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


Yep, you guessed right (I don't know how) :)

Michail




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