Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] configure.ac, readline.pc.in: fix Requires.private value

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/2/18 10:04 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello Chet,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:52:54 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> The provided readline.pc.in hardcodes the fact that readline depends
>>> on the tinfo library. However, different termcap implementation are
>>> supported beyond tinfo. This commit improves the configure.ac script
>>> to define a TERMCAP_PKG_CONFIG_LIB variable, which is then used in
>>> readline.pc.in.
>>>
>>> This for example allows the generated readline.pc to properly contain
>>> "Requires.private: ncurses" when ncurses is used as the termcap
>>> implementation.  
>>
>> Thanks for the report and patch.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. Does this means that my patch has been applied
> or will be applied ?

Yes, it's in the current readline devel git branch on savannah.gnu.org.

> If so, I'd like to provide another patch that makes sure the .pc file
> is installed by default, so that it can be used by other packages,
> through pkg-config. Would this make sense ?

Sure, send it along.

Chet


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