From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@notcom.org>
Cc: 64577@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64577: 29.0.92; configure on NetBSD forces unstable terminfo library
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:32:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zg415k7c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rtwyazo2mvkdjoacv5tqbbgolhzjxlj5mrzon2capyztvrf54a@oj3xrcl6mzkq> (message from Valtteri Vuorikoski on Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:57:29 +0300)
> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:57:29 +0300
> From: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@notcom.org>
> Cc: 64577@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > netbsd)
> > if test "x$LIBS_TERMCAP" != "x-lterminfo"; then
> > TERMINFO=no
> > LIBS_TERMCAP="-ltermcap"
> > fi
> >
> > should have set TERMINFO=no, which disables linking against terminfo.
> >
> > So I don't think I understand what is going on there.
>
> Finding ncurses is good, but unfortunately ncurses isn't what ends up
> getting used. configure says:
>
> checking for library containing tputs... -lncurses
>
> but this happens:
>
> $ ldd src/emacs | egrep 'term|curses'
> -lterminfo.1 => /usr/lib/libterminfo.so.1
>
> Disabling the test above results in src/emacs being linked with
> ncurses. That is, when I remove the whole "netbsd" special case
> from configure this is the result:
>
> $ ldd ~/emacs/bin/emacs | egrep 'term|curses'
> -lncurses.6 => /usr/pkg/lib/libncurses.so.6
So does the patch below fix the issue?
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 19575e8..21c396f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5212,7 +5212,7 @@ AC_DEFUN
;;
netbsd)
- if test "x$LIBS_TERMCAP" != "x-lterminfo"; then
+ if test "x$LIBS_TERMCAP" != "x-lncurses"; then
TERMINFO=no
LIBS_TERMCAP="-ltermcap"
fi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-12 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-11 20:37 bug#64577: 29.0.92; configure on NetBSD forces unstable terminfo library vuori
2023-07-12 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-12 12:57 ` Valtteri Vuorikoski
2023-07-12 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-12 14:06 ` Valtteri Vuorikoski
2023-07-12 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-12 20:22 ` Valtteri Vuorikoski
2023-07-13 5:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-13 9:35 ` Valtteri Vuorikoski
2023-07-15 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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