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Re: PATCH: Link with curses if (and even) if it doesn't provide tgetent



On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 19:18 +0200, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> Hello,
> I've revised the patch. It has been seriously upgraded:
> - the checks against the termcap & terminfo functions is being ran
> again explicitly before deciding to link with ncurses,
> - more functions are being checked, namely all that I've found tests
> in the configure for, i.e.: besides tgetent and tigetflag, also
> tigetstr and tigetnum,
> - I've also extended the normal- i.e.: previous test with the tigetstr
> function, as it seems to be most important, because it's the function
> that's being tested for when --with-term-lib=... is being used.

Looks plausible --- we'll probably only find problems if we roll it out.
Hopefully enough people will try it to get some coverage.  I'll commit
this if no one spots anything.

pws


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