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

Submitted by:  Fred Wright <fhgwright>
Submitted on:  Sun 06 Mar 2016 09:35:23 PM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Wont Fix
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Eric S. Raymond <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>
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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>
Project 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>
Project Member

 

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