Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.29-rc2

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On 20 Oct 2016 17:19, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 01:34:24PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> > For me it looks like the even the ncurses authors do not like their own 
> > pc files. Disabled by default and it's a pain to get them built with 
> > correct names and installed in the right location. Even --prefix does 
> > not work for their pc files. Plus the backward compatibility 
> > problem ... 
> 
> OK, I have applied:
>    https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/e5cc93b5a8854fce80537f86a244977df212dcb5
> 
> with ncurses-config and fallback to old good AC_CHECK_LIB. 
> 
> We can add fallback to pkg-config too, but it sounds like overkill if
> ncurses-config is everywhere.

ugh, this change makes things worse.  the point of using pkg-config
is also to get sane cross-compiling.  by always running `xxx-config`,
it now breaks cross-compiling.

why can't we just tell distros to fix their ncurses install ?  it's
not like 2.29, released a month ago, is getting rolled out to old
distros where people can't update their ncurses systems.

"it's hard" is a pretty weak argument for distro maintainers.
-mike

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