[oe] ncurses 5.7 doesn't build libtermcap anymore?

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Mike Westerhof <mike at mwester.net> wrote:
> I've been working on some recent problems that popped up in the SlugOS
> feeds; one that appeared recently is that asterisk no longer builds;
> configure complains about -ltermcap, and investigation shows that
> indeed, libtermcap is missing.  It seems that the new ncurses recipe
> (5.7) no longer builds it for some reason.  I think the same problem is
> the root cause for the failure of js to build as well.
>
> So I guess the first question is if this is intentional or not?  If it
> is, then I guess I'll modify the asterisk recipe to remove the
> dependency and submit that patch.  Otherwise, well, I guess I could
> attempt to debug and fix the ncurses recipe, but it looks a bit, um,
> "non-trivial" so any advice would be appreciated.
>

AFAICT libtermcap is now in libncurses. so either we can create a
symlink called libtermcap.so pointing
to libncurses.so or we can fix the recipes to link with -lncurses
instead. I think first approach might be
better.

> Or should I just pin ncurses to the old 5.4 version that worked?
>


> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
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