From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtQ67-0001xk-22 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:14:19 +0200 Received: from svr-orw-exc-08.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.97]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1OtQ5Q-0001MO-UW from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:13:36 -0700 Received: from na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com ([134.86.114.213]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-08.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:13:36 -0700 Received: from [172.30.80.172] ([172.30.80.172]) by na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:13:35 -0600 Message-ID: <4C87E05A.6050004@mentor.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:13:30 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Sep 2010 19:13:35.0951 (UTC) FILETIME=[EF9F75F0:01CB4F89] X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.94.38.131 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: Tom_Rini@mentor.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: libtermcap X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:14:19 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Enrico Scholz wrote: > Frans Meulenbroeks writes: > >> Eric peeked into the termcap problem. I've tested his patch and it >> works. He will probably push a patch later today. >> >> The termcap problem from asterisk is not related. It cannot find >> libtermcap. This one does not exist any more with ncurses 5.7. >> >> People how should we fix this? > > I added 9e58422868a03eeafa72781477174850d1c5abe7 some hours ago so that > '-ltermcap' should work again. Patch does not break my builds but I do > not know whether it unbreaks the problematic ones ;) > > Things are too different across the distributions (some have the > ncurses-config binconfig tools, other the .pc files, some have > libtinfo, some not) to find *the* correct solution. Maybe I'm jumping in too late here. Why is the correct solution not "make our ncurses-native build and install what's required by other recipes, fix broken recipes that look for the wrong thing" ? IMHO, if you ASSUME_PROVIDED and things break, thats not our problem, its your problem (Doctor, it hurts when I do *this*. Don't do *that* !) -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation