Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (142 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx> [2011-11-22 10:09]:
> > Werner split libltinfo from libncurses and so we see a lot of build
> > failures due to programs linking -lncurses and expecting functions
> > there that are now in -lltinfo and as library dependencies are not
> > longer taken into account, there is a huge fallout.
> >
> > The right fix is to use ncurses-config --libs - note that Fedora
> > and debian have the same split, so packages failing have a high
> > chance of having a patch floating around in the internet :)
>
> This breaks almost every single application using curses. It is
> also not what Fedora and Debian have done and thus there are
> mostly no such patches. While they provide separate libtinfo
> packages they also have linker scripts which ensure that
> applications linking against ncurses/ncursesw always link against
> -ltinfo too. Can we please do that as well to restore sanity?
>
> Also note that using ncurses-config is not acceptable for many
> upstreams who do not want to depend on a certain curses
> implementation.

Guido,

This is fyi only, not arguing one way or the other.

If autoconf is in use, this was the entire patch that fixed it for a
package I maintain:

========
diff -Naur afflib-3.6.12/configure.ac afflib-3.6.12.patched/configure.ac
--- afflib-3.6.12/configure.ac  2011-05-23 17:59:38.000000000 -0400
+++ afflib-3.6.12.patched/configure.ac  2011-11-22 10:49:53.000000000 -0500
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@
 AC_CHECK_LIB([ncurses],[initscr],, AC_MSG_RESULT([ncurses not installed]))
 AC_CHECK_LIB([z],[uncompress],, AC_MSG_ERROR([zlib not installed;
cannot continue. Try adding zlib-dev or zlib1g-dev.]))
 AC_CHECK_LIB([rt],[aio_error64])
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, termlib termcap tinfo curses ncurses)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(putp tputs tgoto tgetstr tgetnum gotorc beep endwin
setupterm printw)
===

Assuming similar fixes will work for other packages, I don't see why
upstream would not take a patch like that.

Greg
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