[oe] libtermcap
Tom Rini
tom_rini at mentor.com
Wed Sep 8 19:13:30 UTC 2010
Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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 added 9e58422868a03eeafa72781477174850d1c5abe7 some hours ago so that
> '-ltermcap' should work again. Patch does not break my builds but I do
> not know whether it unbreaks the problematic ones ;)
>
> Things are too different across the distributions (some have the
> ncurses-config binconfig tools, other the .pc files, some have
> libtinfo, some not) to find *the* correct solution.
Maybe I'm jumping in too late here. Why is the correct solution not
"make our ncurses-native build and install what's required by other
recipes, fix broken recipes that look for the wrong thing" ? IMHO, if
you ASSUME_PROVIDED and things break, thats not our problem, its your
problem (Doctor, it hurts when I do *this*. Don't do *that* !)
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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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