From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: vapier@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:15:10 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger To: Karel Zak Cc: Ruediger Meier , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.29-rc2 Message-ID: <20161210171510.GH10558@vapier.lan> References: <20161019132505.cumn37cmgazlumcu@ws.net.home> <201610201225.31755.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> <20161020110003.if5kjodyjqezynzp@ws.net.home> <201610201334.24945.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> <20161020151948.3y47rv5lwmqppubf@ws.net.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x9NlMAausKqHAFUv" In-Reply-To: <20161020151948.3y47rv5lwmqppubf@ws.net.home> List-ID: --x9NlMAausKqHAFUv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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= =20 > > pc files. Disabled by default and it's a pain to get them built with=20 > > correct names and installed in the right location. Even --prefix does= =20 > > not work for their pc files. Plus the backward compatibility=20 > > problem ...=20 >=20 > OK, I have applied: > https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/e5cc93b5a8854fce80537f86= a244977df212dcb5 >=20 > with ncurses-config and fallback to old good AC_CHECK_LIB.=20 >=20 > 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 --x9NlMAausKqHAFUv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYTDgeAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBIQkP/iF+h1FovNOYgZEeNT4N9Cc/ iqrHqS3cIZMK2ogRQyzIQyu5cjyUx5L3Nwgh6250Oc6fc1vHMUXC6KEsZuBv4/hT DqnphzpebJ6DiitBF+/r+dWEwP4VkKlyUZW+FWZHtT83yBLrW3l7ExaaB85iweD/ XMd5RakFlqoxgb6Ggp2JSiPw3MhZwhVIf1eO2LkSeKDIgSFLaNpAOeszEVBnm5ae DoTbG7dywwUZ1iiShnTOzVhXs/kcMC7DTlI8WEJUEKTkndlfgy3twDy1+BAnFkZe KfHCI6m9SQKOuvFu6vsBhHq58zH4OhLeIVk3xeMk8/uauyGNvAe2TTqAnu5ngUgD p10WpahnSxeJMB0c9OhvIDt7pBtKAT/lxfq+J50mMdZ2TOfYxm/ct15ONnFG1ebV h6xSpX8gE0CkHJhKdeGvBWBH02DbumXXs/uNO2Q9/OulHkQo2qVcaWQGAtOL4I1B jeyoOx0QB4sSEXjRr4TB5a4P3SAAwDqx0Cm/jEyU+U8HEClNQbkF8Nty7wuEtV5E +iz/or3MSjSp41DA0Vk9ifpzdeDVIQKH4xp11eNKhe1Xk8HxXCyZQSppU1+2JeXg udx3No8mJx5XKmfJGzj44mGicvZPxJ+ErsFZXMcPfcOFjwP3mmrMYJulWTk1Jux8 aHxHbQKTf87I2a8B5Coq =BO8I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x9NlMAausKqHAFUv--