Re: ncurses 5.5.20061014: DESTDIR and ncurses5-config --cflags

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:03:55AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> In the latest ncurses 5.5.20061014 there is a new ncurses5-config
> script. Good idea. But there are two issues:
> 
> 1. The installation of the script does not honor DESTDIR which
>    makes problems for packagers (like us in our OpenPKG project).

yes - I saw an earlier report on this (thanks).
 
> 2. The output of "ncurses5-config --cflags" shows on a FreeBSD box...
> 
>    -D_BSD_TYPES -D__BSD_VISIBLE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L
>    -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -I/openpkg-dev/include -I/openpkg-dev/include/ncurses
> 
>    ...although I expected just...
> 
>    -I/openpkg-dev/include -I/openpkg-dev/include/ncurses

This is harder.  It would be nice to drop the -D's, but on some platforms
that might leave the headers uncompilable.  Partly that's due to the case
where one is installing the wide-character interface, and partly that's
addressing platforms such as HPUX...

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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