Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/readline

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 05:54:07PM -0600, John Marino wrote:
> On 11/24/2016 17:46, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:35:19PM +0000, John Marino wrote:
> > > There is no termcap library available in any form on DragonFly.
> > > Discussed with wiz@.
> > 
> > But termcap.b3.mk already has fallback logic to curses, so that should
> > be used.
> > 
> 
> Please note 2 things:
> 1) the other line "CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-curses=yes"

That doesn't invalidate anything I said.

> 2) none of the curses / termcap logic works on DragonFly, at all.
> 
> For many months, curses library is private but the headers were public.
> Since pkgsrc doesn't actually test ability to link but only assumes that
> header presence == library presence, it's all broken.

Ah, so DragonFly provides a brain dead installation and everything else
should cope. I understand.

Joerg