Re: libtermcap

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> 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* !)

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation