Re: What does ncurses need?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:30:03 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> One issue with curess in BSD land is that there is "curses" which is
> really good enough for almost all things that claim to need ncurses.
> 
> There is an x-open specification:
> 
>   https://publications.opengroup.org/c094
> 
> and I haven't looked at it yet, but it may be that gpsd should be
> adjusted to first look for that in the way the standard says it has to
> be, and tehn look for ncurses.

Good idea.  scons already does that.

        if not config.CheckHeader(["curses.h"]):
            announce('Turning off ncurses support, curses.h not found.')
            config.env['ncurses'] = False
        elif config.CheckPKG('ncurses'):
            ncurseslibs = pkg_config('ncurses', rpath_hack=True)
            if config.CheckPKG('tinfo'):
                ncurseslibs += pkg_config('tinfo', rpath_hack=True)

> Do we know that gpsd needs features not in the spec?

Given that gpsd has worked in BSD's for a long time, I would think not.

RGDS
GARY
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