Re: cmake needs -ltinfo on Linux

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 15/06/2020 22:52, adr%SDF.ORG@localhost wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 09:13:23PM +0000, adr wrote:
> > Let me see if I can put this mess together.
> >
> > Gentoo, system split ncurses.
> >
> > If CURSES_DEFAULT is set to ncurses, it will include
> > devel/ncurses/buildlink3.mk
> > This is not desirable because we have already ncurses.
>
> This is nonsense, sorry. builtin.mk of ncurses and ncursesw will
> work ok.
>
> After playing with other packages with this issue and taking into
> account the overcomplicated way cmake test curses, and the chaos
> added by the patches I really advice to add something like this to
> the Makefile.
>
> if exists(/usr/lib/libtinfo.so)
> LDFLAGS+=              -ltinfo
> .endif
>
> Of course someone experienced in cmake could rewrite the package with a
> more OS agnostic approach.
>
> It's the first time I'm using pkgsrc on linux, and now I value its
> other unix systems support. Gentoo without systemd is a good
> conbination when you can't run bsd. I could install cmake from
> portage, but I'm trying to use the minimum native applications,
> while avoiding to instal from pkgsrc what is already in the system.

NetBSD has had termcap/terminfo split from curses since forever.
If the application uses curses then use the mk/curses.*.mk files.
If the application uses terminfo then use the mk/terminfo.*.mk files.
If the application uses termcap then use the mk/terminfo.*.mk files.

You can use curses alongside either terminfo or termcap, but not terminfo and 
termcap.

Roy