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bug #47351: Building with ncurses on NetBSD doesn't work

Submitter:  Fred Wright <fhgwright>
Submitted:  Sun 06 Mar 2016 09:35:23 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Wont Fix
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  esr
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Tue 15 Mar 2016 06:38:22 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I'm declaring this a won't fix, to get it off our tracker, and recording it as an upstream bug.  This is not a GPSD problem; NetBSD needs to get their shit together.

Eric S. Raymond <esr>
Group administrator
Tue 08 Mar 2016 12:05:34 AM UTC, comment #1: 

SConstruct has now been fixed to disable ncurses when none of the library setup alternatives is successful.  The actual bug isn't fixed, however, so this should remain open.

Fred Wright <fhgwright>
Group Member
Sun 06 Mar 2016 09:35:23 PM UTC, original submission:  

So far I've been unsuccessful in getting a fully working build with ncurses on NetBSD.  What's known so far:

1) The base NetBSD install (netBSD 6, anyway) includes curses, but it's an old version that lacks the "syncok" function used by gpsmon.  A simple '-lcurses' is sufficient to make cgps work, but not gpsmon.

2) It's possible to install a reasonably current ncurses on NetBSD as a package, but the package setup doesn't include pkg-config data, so the ability to use it doesn't get discovered automatically.

3) It's possible to check the existence of the package with the NetBSD-specific "pkg_info -E", and then fake the options that one would expect to be supplied by pkg-config, but the resulting setup still doesn't build, for an as-yet-undetermined reason.

Currently, ncurses doesn't get automatically disabled when the chain of elifs to set it up falls through, but at least that aspect is easily fixed. :-)

Fred Wright <fhgwright>
Group Member

 

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