[gpsd-dev] [bug #47351] Building with ncurses on NetBSD doesn't work

[Fred Wright]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?47351>

                 Summary: Building with ncurses on NetBSD doesn't work
                 Project: GPSD
            Submitted by: fhgwright
            Submitted on: Sun 06 Mar 2016 09:35:23 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

So far I've been unsuccessful in getting a fully working build with ncurses on
NetBSD.  What's known so far:

1) The base NetBSD install (netBSD 6, anyway) includes curses, but it's an old
version that lacks the "syncok" function used by gpsmon.  A simple '-lcurses'
is sufficient to make cgps work, but not gpsmon.

2) It's possible to install a reasonably current ncurses on NetBSD as a
package, but the package setup doesn't include pkg-config data, so the ability
to use it doesn't get discovered automatically.

3) It's possible to check the existence of the package with the
NetBSD-specific "pkg_info -E", and then fake the options that one would expect
to be supplied by pkg-config, but the resulting setup still doesn't build, for
an as-yet-undetermined reason.

Currently, ncurses doesn't get automatically disabled when the chain of elifs
to set it up falls through, but at least that aspect is easily fixed. :-)





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