Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix legacy ncurses detection.

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>]

Hello,

Cornelia Huck, on Wed 09 Nov 2016 09:58:59 +0100, wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 21:10:19 +0100
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Cornelia Huck, on Tue 08 Nov 2016 12:34:49 +0100, wrote:
> > “
> > configure test passed without -Werror but failed with -Werror.
> > This is probably a bug in the configure script. The failing command
> > will be at the bottom of config.log.
> > You can run configure with --disable-werror to bypass this check.
> > ”
> > 
> > If so, you should really have said it, I was really wondering how
> > configure could just stopping in your case.  That does explain things
> > indeed.
> 
> I said so in my very first mail for the issue... appears I was unclear.

Do you mean "configure barfs about -Werror."?
Yes it was unclear to me :)

> > Could you try the attached patch?  It should be able to really fail
> > without Werror too.
> 
> With your patch, configure runs through and detects curses=no. Not sure
> that's correct, though: SLES12SP1 _does_ have curses, but not a .pc
> file for ncursesw. I don't know enough about curses to say whether it
> should be that way...

Please post config.log so we can have a clue about what is going
wrong.  All these error messages are meant to be reported verbatim, not
reinterpreted :)

Samuel