linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

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Message-ID: <51305D44.3080601@gentoo.org>
Date:	Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:48:20 +0100
From:	justin <jlec@...too.org>
To:	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
CC:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

On 28/02/13 21:59, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> I've queued that one in my tree, now, in branch yem-kconfig-for-next:
>     https://www.gitorious.org/linux-kconfig/linux-kconfig
> 

Thanks for queuing, but with the points which Sven mentioned we should
first agree on a way to detect things.

The simplest option which might only be present at very recent distro
versions is using pkg-config.
Second best is ncurses*5-config. There we have the strange situation
that "ncurses-bin" contains the config scripts although no build time
dependencies are installed along.
Third, we might only find either of nurses{,w}5-config.
And at last we might face the situation where the new ABI is used and
the script is named ncurses{,w}6-config.

Ugly but working would be a simple "||" chain. This would create
problems on debian/ubuntu which needs to be solved.

Any other suggestions how we can solve the problem?

Thanks
justin

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