Re: ANN: ncurses-6.2-20211016

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 08:23:04PM +0200, Milan P. Stanić wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 13:44, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > | From: "Milan P. Stanić" <mps@arvanta.net>
> > | To: "Ncurses Mailing List" <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
> > | Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 8:18:25 AM
> > | Subject: Re: ANN: ncurses-6.2-20211016
> > 
> > | Hi Thomas,
> > | 
> > | On Sun, 2021-10-17 at 00:26, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > | [...]
> > | 
> > |> 20211016
> > |>  + build-fix for pmake with libtool.
> > |>  + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
> > |>    shellcheck warnings.
> > |>  + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
> > |>  + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
> > |>    search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
> > |>    (report by Pascal Pignard).
> > 
> > https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20211017
> > 
> >         + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned 
> > in
> >           the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele 
> > Balducci).
> 
> Yes, my build log below is when building 6.2-20211017
> 
> Our option is only to make patch for configure to pass builders

for now - I'll have to sort it out and find a better solution
 
> > | 
> > | this changes in configure introduced bug in Alpine linux builders
> > | because they don't have /usr/lib/pkgconfig dir by default.
> > | 
> > | Here is part of  ./configure log:
> > | -------------------------------------
> > | checking for long file names... yes
> > | checking if you want to use pkg-config... yes
> > | checking for x86_64-alpine-linux-musl-pkg-config... no
> > | checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> > | checking for /usr/bin/pkg-config library directory... checking for first
> > | directory... none
> > | checking if we should install .pc files for /usr/bin/pkg-config... yes
> > | configure: error: expected a pathname, not ""

I think that the fix for this may be small :-)

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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