Re: PATCH: terminfo configuration redux

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Felix Rosencrantz wrote:
> --- Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Felix Rosencrantz wrote:
> > > The ncurses-devel was not installed.
> > Does that mean that curses.h is present even without ncurses-devel?
> No.
> 
> The file curses.h is present only with ncurses-devel.  It gets installed by=
>  the
> ncurses-devel package.  The build  dies on ERR problem in terminfo.c, if
> ncurses-devel package is uninstalled.=20

I don't see how that can happen.  terminfo.mdd won't let terminfo.c be
compiled if there's no curses.h (it should set link=no in
config.modules), and even if terminfo.c get's compiled
USE_TERMINFO_MODULE won't be defined unless HAVE_CURSES_H is present.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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