Re: libtermcap

[Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>]

Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com> writes:

>> 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" ?  

the "wrong" and "right" thing is difficultly to define for libtermcap.
Generally, patches should be in a manner that they can be accepted by
upstream.  That's not the case for 's!-ltermcap!-ltinfo!'


> 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*
> !)

OE has still the ncurses-5.4 receipt which will break packages depending
on hardcoded -ltinfo.



Enrico