Re: headers installed incorrectly?

[Alexey Toptygin]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Bob Rossi wrote:

> > Does this mean I should be filing bug reports to authors of software that
> > only test for ncurses.h and curses.h in their configure scripts? Should
> > they all be testing for ncurses/curses.h first?
>
> Hi Alexey,
>
> I have CGDB only check for curses.h. This has worked everywhere so far
> that I have built it. Usually it's a symlink.

What systems was this on? I find that on Solaris and some BSD 
installations, there is very often a native curses with limited 
capabilities as well as GNU ncurses. If you only test for curses.h, you 
will likely find some curses implementation, but which one? The existence 
of this feature (putting ncurses headers in their own subdirectory to 
avoid including some other curses.h by accident) seems to indicate this is 
a very common scenario.

                        Alexey