Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: try pkg-config for curses

[Anthony Liguori]

Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> writes:

> From: Vadim Evard <address@hidden>
>
> Static linkikng against ncurses may require explicit -ltinfo.
> In case -lcurses and -lncurses both didn't work give pkg-config a
> chance.
>
> Fixes #1094786 for me.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vadim Evard <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
>  configure | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index c908f66..40473a9 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -2039,7 +2039,7 @@ fi
>  if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then
>      curses_list="-lpdcurses"
>  else
> -    curses_list="-lncurses -lcurses"
> +    curses_list="-lncurses:-lcurses:$($pkg_config --libs ncurses)"

Please fix this as a follow up but this is sloppy.

pkg-config spews stuff to stderr when a package isn't found so this ends
up outputting junk in the configure if ncurses isn't found.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>  fi
>  
>  if test "$curses" != "no" ; then
> @@ -2052,13 +2052,16 @@ int main(void) {
>    return s != 0;
>  }
>  EOF
> +  IFS=:
>    for curses_lib in $curses_list; do
> +    unset IFS
>      if compile_prog "" "$curses_lib" ; then
>        curses_found=yes
>        libs_softmmu="$curses_lib $libs_softmmu"
>        break
>      fi
>    done
> +  unset IFS
>    if test "$curses_found" = "yes" ; then
>      curses=yes
>    else
> -- 
> 1.8.0.2