[oe] libtermcap (was: Re: Asterisk and termcap)

[Arigead]

Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2010/9/6 Arigead <captain.deadly at gmail.com>:
>> was trying to build Asterisk for the OpenMoko Free runner and it failed
>> on a dependency on termcap so I tried to bitbake termcap first and that
>> failed. The termcap compile stage is working but it's when it tries to
>> install that the recipe seems to fail but I'm new to this.
>>
>> I'm off to read the openembedded documentation again but in the mean
>> time if anybody can give me a hit that would be great.
> 
> Eric peeked into the termcap problem. I've tested his patch and it
> works. He will probably push a patch later today.
> 
> The termcap problem from asterisk is not related. It cannot find
> libtermcap. This one does not exist any more with ncurses 5.7.
> 
> People how should we fix this? I know it has been discussed before,
> but I don't recall a solution.
> I bumped into this for a different package too. There I fixed things
> by adding a patch, but I am not sure if that is really the desired
> solution.
> 
> Best regards, Frans
> 

thanks a million for that Frans. I'll keep my ears on here and see if an
answer to this comes up.