Re: [PATCH 1/2] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Yann E. MORIN]

Justin, All,

On Friday 01 March 2013 jlec@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from
> libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one
> additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so. Ncurses provides a config script
> (ncurses5-config) or in very recent version even a pkg-config module to assist
> finding ncurses.
> 
> The old heuristic for detection of ncurses libs will be extended to the
> pkg-config and the config scripts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
> index 8078813..8086874 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
> @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
>  # What library to link
>  ldflags()
>  {
> +	pkg-config --libs ncursesw 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	pkg-config --libs ncurses 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	ncursesw5-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	ncurses5-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	ncursesw6-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit
> +	ncurses6-config --libs 2>/dev/null && exit

In the light of the different mails on the subject, it appears that the
ncurses*-config script are unreliable: at least one major distribution
(Debian) is broken and, for various reasons, is not gonna fix it, and
all its derivatives (eg. Ubuntu) do suffer from the same deficiency.

I think we should stick to:
  - try with pkg-config;
  - fallback to the legacy heuristic.

Does using pkg-config fix your use-case?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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