linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: new kbuild maintainer

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Message-ID: <9b2db90b0912100404s5e97d9ddk181aed1990e36208@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:04:23 +0200
From:	Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@...il.com>
To:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: new kbuild maintainer

>
> On my disto it works but it won't on a distro where /usr/include/ncurses
> contains wide version of headers.

ncurses does not support a proper pkg-config scheme, hence the
difficulty with finding the correct flags. Regarding the wideness of
the library, I would presume that any distro which mismatches
/usr/include/ncurses.h and libncurses.so is in itself broken. Taking
this into consideration, I think that including /usr/include/ncurses.h
and linking against -lncurses should work. We should entirely ignore
the wide version of the library, and use the default installation
provided.

>
>>
>> Moreover, currently nconfig does not use this check.
>
> I was testing on linus git and this flags from this check were used in nconfig
> build, too (that's why there were ncurses and ncursesw at the same time in
> linking command).

Well, I do not know why, by the check changed the flags for _all_
targets in the scripts/kconfig dir, such that even qconfig got copiled
with -lncursesw. Strange. The change I made in the Makefile in the
previous mail fixes that.

Cheers,
Nir.
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