Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: new kbuild maintainer

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz napsal(a):
> On Tuesday 08 of December 2009, Michal Marek wrote:
>> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz napsal(a):
>>> Maybe we can get colors back in menuconfig then? ;-)
>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13677
>> Does it also happen with Nir's nconfig
>> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/25/119)?
> 
> Yes, it does happen, I have non-color menus. That's because nconfig also mixes 
> wide ncurses library with non wide ncurses headers.
> 
>   gcc -Wp,-MD,scripts/kconfig/.nconf.o.d -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-
> prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer   -I/usr/include/ncurses -
> DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE   -c -o scripts/kconfig/nconf.o 
> scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
> 
> /usr/include/ncurses is non wide version of ncurses headers (but on other 
> distros it could be done differently aka /usr/include/ncures being wide 
> version)
> 
>   gcc  -o scripts/kconfig/nconf scripts/kconfig/nconf.o 
> scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.o -lncursesw -lmenu -
> lpanel -lncurses
> 
> and here it's linked to non wide version of library (also to wide, too due to 
> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh putting it here)
> 
> Anyway way to solve this is:
> - detect if ncurses header is wide or non-wide
> - link with proper ncurses library based on detected header

Nir, you surely know ncurses better than me :). Could you look into
this?   Arkadiusz, which distribution are you using?

Michal