Re: [Nano-devel] Unable to build nano from svn on Ubuntu 15.10

[Mike Frysinger]

On 05 Nov 2015 16:08, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015, at 13:41, Sam Reed wrote:
> > ./configure: line 8316: syntax error near unexpected token `NCURSESW,'
> > ./configure: line 8316: `   PKG_CHECK_MODULES(NCURSESW, ncursesw,'
> 
> Hm, that is the same error as was reported here:
>     https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44630
> 
> In aclocal.m4 it says this:
> 
> # Note that if there is a possibility the first call to
> # PKG_CHECK_MODULES might not happen, you should be sure to include an
> # explicit call to PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG in your configure.ac
> 
> So... please try the attached patch and rerun ./autogen.sh.
> I doubt that it can help, but that's what the comment says.

the patch, while fine, won't fix the issue.  the people trying to build
nano from svn have not installed the pkg-config dev package which has
the pkg.m4 file.  in which case, the error is on their side, not ours.
-mike

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