[bug #59811] terminal libraries needed on configure just after less

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Update of bug #59811 (project reproduce):

                Category:                    None => Software               
              Item Group:                    None => Crash                  
                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Assigned to:                    None => makhlaghi              
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Thanks a lot for reporting this Boud! I checked it in a Docker image (which is
Debian-slim) and was able to reproduce the problem.

Looking into the 'configure' script of 'less', I found that the cause of the
failure is that it can't find these library functions: 'tgetent', 'tgetflag',
'tgetnum', 'tgetstr'. Searching their names pointed me to the cause: 

These library functions are provided by 'ncurses' and until now 'less' was
built in parallel with 'ncurses' (they both only depended on 'patchelf'). This
is the reason that it was built on your second run (because you had 'ncurses'
on the second run).

So in Commit 31f4ea3faf6
<http://git.maneage.org/project.git/commit/?id=31f4ea3faf6d357ae5889dc4aa9bd5b5457243ce>,
I set 'less' to depend on 'ncurses' and this fixed the problem was fixed in a
new Docker image (on the first run).

I am closing this task since the problem appears to be fixed. But please check
on your system too and if you still see the error, please re-open the bug so
we look closer into it.

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