Re: [Powertop] [PATCH] use pkg-config to find ncurses

[Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina <zerochaos at gentoo.org>]

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On 04/25/2014 07:58 PM, Alexandra Yates wrote:
> Hi Zero,
> 
> Based on Sergey's feedback can you send a revision for your patches?
> 
> thank you,
> Alex
> On 04/16/2014 03:54 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>>>> On (04/16/14 12:41), Kok, Auke-jan H wrote:
>>>>> ncurses by itself does not provide a pkgconfig check, it is however
>>>>> manually added by various distributions, but not all of them.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, the patch below breaks building powertop for those distributions.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> yes. good point. apparently ncurses provides pkg-config files these
>>>> days.
>>>> but there still may be distributions that use older ncurses versions.
> 
> 
> pkgconfig support was added on 20090103 according to the changelog here:
> http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html.
> 
> Is is really a major concern to to require a version of ncurses released
> within the last 5 years?

I believe these comments stand for themselves.  If a user isn't on a
modern ncurses I fail to see why they would be on a modern powertop
either.  Supporting things >5 years old building against modern things
is past my point of caring.  If someone else would like to amend the
patch to fall back to hardcoded libs that's fine, but I'm not going to
invest my time in this.  Sadly, my autotools skills are unimpressive and
there is no justification for the amount of time this would take me.

Accept the patch, don't accept the patch, modify the patch as you see
fit, whatever you like.

Thanks,
Zero
> 
> -Zero
>>>>
>>>> 	-ss
>>>>
>>>>> I suggest that if you really want to make it use pkg-config, you write
>>>>> it in such a way that if pkg-config checking fails, it will still
>>>>> attempt to search for the appropriate libs instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> Auke
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
>>>>> <zerochaos(a)gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> Original bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486124
>>>>
>>>> Depending on how ncurses is built, it may require different information
>>>> passed to the linker.  Use pkg-config to detect the correct information:
>>>>
>>>> --- a/configure.ac
>>>> +++ b/configure.ac
>>>> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
>>>>  AC_FUNC_STRTOD
>>>>  AC_CHECK_FUNCS([fdatasync getpagesize gettimeofday memmove memset mkdir
>>>> munmap pow realpath regcomp select setlocale socket sqrt strcasecmp
>>>> strchr strdup strerror strncasecmp strstr strtoul strtoull])
>>>>
>>>> -AC_SEARCH_LIBS([delwin], [ncursesw ncurses], [], AC_MSG_ERROR([ncurses
>>>> is required but was not found]), [])
>>>> +PKG_CHECK_MODULES(ncurses, ncurses, [LIBS="$LIBS $ncurses_LIBS"],
>>>> AC_MSG_ERROR([ncurses is required but was not found]))
>>>>
>>>>  has_libpci=0
>>>>  PKG_CHECK_MODULES([PCIUTILS], [libpci],[has_libpci=1],[
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Original patch:
>>>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-power/powertop/files/powertop-2.4-tinfo.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup
>>>>
>>>> Please include this fix.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Zero
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> 
> Thank you,
> Alexandra.
> 

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