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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.29-rc2
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:15:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161210171510.GH10558@vapier.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161020151948.3y47rv5lwmqppubf@ws.net.home>

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On 20 Oct 2016 17:19, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 01:34:24PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> > For me it looks like the even the ncurses authors do not like their own 
> > pc files. Disabled by default and it's a pain to get them built with 
> > correct names and installed in the right location. Even --prefix does 
> > not work for their pc files. Plus the backward compatibility 
> > problem ... 
> 
> OK, I have applied:
>    https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/e5cc93b5a8854fce80537f86a244977df212dcb5
> 
> with ncurses-config and fallback to old good AC_CHECK_LIB. 
> 
> We can add fallback to pkg-config too, but it sounds like overkill if
> ncurses-config is everywhere.

ugh, this change makes things worse.  the point of using pkg-config
is also to get sane cross-compiling.  by always running `xxx-config`,
it now breaks cross-compiling.

why can't we just tell distros to fix their ncurses install ?  it's
not like 2.29, released a month ago, is getting rolled out to old
distros where people can't update their ncurses systems.

"it's hard" is a pretty weak argument for distro maintainers.
-mike

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-10 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19 13:25 [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.29-rc2 Karel Zak
2016-10-20  6:03 ` Ruediger Meier
2016-10-20  9:17   ` Karel Zak
2016-10-20 10:25     ` Ruediger Meier
2016-10-20 11:00       ` Karel Zak
2016-10-20 11:34         ` Ruediger Meier
2016-10-20 15:19           ` Karel Zak
2016-10-20 16:28             ` Ruediger Meier
2016-10-20 16:40               ` Karel Zak
2016-10-20 17:08                 ` Ruediger Meier
2016-10-21 14:44                   ` Karel Zak
2016-10-21 15:03                     ` Ruediger Meier
2016-10-20 19:20             ` Ruediger Meier
2016-12-10 17:15             ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2016-12-12 10:29               ` Karel Zak
2016-12-12 14:31                 ` Ruediger Meier
2016-12-12 14:01               ` Ruediger Meier
2016-12-12 14:28                 ` Karel Zak
2016-12-12 18:27                   ` Mike Frysinger
2016-12-13 11:44                     ` Karel Zak
2016-12-12 17:52                 ` Mike Frysinger
2016-10-20 17:11 ` Ruediger Meier

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