Re: [PATCH] meson: fix ncurses detection on macOS

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 12/28/20 4:16 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Without this, meson fails with "curses package not usable"
> when using ncurses 6.2. Apparently the wide functions
> (addwstr, etc) are hidden behind the extra define, and
> meson does not define it at that detection stage.

Seems reasonable, but still Cc'ing more developers.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Hofstaedtler <chris@hofstaedtler.name>
> ---
>  meson.build | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 9c152a85bd..7b9d92c14a 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ if have_system and not get_option('curses').disabled()
>    endforeach
>    msg = get_option('curses').enabled() ? 'curses library not found' : ''
>    if curses.found()
> -    if cc.links(curses_test, dependencies: [curses])
> +    if cc.links(curses_test, args: '-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR', dependencies: 
> [curses])
>        curses = declare_dependency(compile_args: '-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR', 
> dependencies: [curses])
>      else
>        msg = 'curses package not usable'
>