Re: [bug-gtypist] gtypist fails to build with ncurses[tinfo]

[David Abbott]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Felix Natter <address@hidden> wrote:
> David Abbott <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>
> hello David!
>
>> I am the proxy-maintainer for gtypist for Gentoo. Looks like gtypist
>> is not using pkg-config to detect ncurses. Here is the bug report,
>> thanks for your help.
>>
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483778
>>
>> And here is the tracker with some more info;
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457530
>
> Sorry for the delay. We have agreed to check for cbreak() in -ltinfo
> "manually" instead of using pkg-config because it's simpler, works
> without pkg-config available and falling back from pkg-config failure
> can become complicated (see
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10220946/pkg-check-modules-considered-harmful).
>
> Can you please confirm that this patch works for gentoo? (Then we'll make
> a 2.9.4 release with this included)
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gtypist.git;a=commitdiff;h=f8fa103b8e2ea53ba23c4616fc0457f6ba424e25;hp=c72249d078eb5f47e72f2f96ef8399f35c04cb9d
>
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> --
> Felix Natter

Hi Felix,
Works fine here, thanks

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