Bugzilla Bug 215670

Fixes #209782

Created an attachment (id=147944) [edit]
dpkg-1.14.17.ebuild

Added a local use flag, 'dselect'. Might be that 'minimal' could be used
instead.

--- dpkg-1.14.16.6.ebuild.orig  2008-04-01 07:26:18 +0000
+++ dpkg-1.14.17.ebuild 2008-04-01 07:53:05 +0000
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@

 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="alpha ~amd64 arm ~hppa ia64 m68k ~ppc s390 sh sparc x86"
-IUSE="bzip2 nls selinux test zlib"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~ppc ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="bzip2 dselect nls selinux test zlib"

 RDEPEND=">=dev-lang/perl-5.6.0
-       >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r7
+       dselect? ( >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r7 )
        zlib? ( >=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 )
        bzip2? ( app-arch/bzip2 )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@
        unpack ${A}
        cd "${S}"
        epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.14.12-nls.patch #192819
-       epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.14.16.6-check-PATH.patch #210997
 }

 src_compile() {
        econf \
                $(use_with bzip2 bz2lib) \
+               $(use_with dselect) \
                $(use_enable nls) \
                $(use_with selinux) \
                $(use_with zlib) \

1.14.17 now in the tree

is there a reason you want to control dselect ?

(In reply to comment #2)
> 1.14.17 now in the tree
> 
> is there a reason you want to control dselect ?
> 

Yes. It fails to build with uclibc and I'm tired of patching dpkg.

g++-uc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"
-DADMINDIR=\"/var/lib/dpkg\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/dpkg\" -idirafter ../libcompat
-I../lib    -Os -pipe -MT basetop.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/basetop.Tpo -c -o
basetop.o basetop.cc
In file included from basetop.cc:33:
dselect.h:31:29: ncursesw/curses.h: No such file or directory
In file included from basetop.cc:33:
dselect.h:56: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `WINDOW' with no type
dselect.h:56: error: expected `;' before '*' token

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > 1.14.17 now in the tree
> > 
> > is there a reason you want to control dselect ?
> > 
> 
> Yes. It fails to build with uclibc and I'm tired of patching dpkg.
> 
> g++-uc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"
> -DADMINDIR=\"/var/lib/dpkg\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/dpkg\" -idirafter ../libcompat
> -I../lib    -Os -pipe -MT basetop.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/basetop.Tpo -c -o
> basetop.o basetop.cc
> In file included from basetop.cc:33:
> dselect.h:31:29: ncursesw/curses.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from basetop.cc:33:
> dselect.h:56: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `WINDOW' with no type
> dselect.h:56: error: expected `;' before '*' token
> 
This not related only to uclibc. Reproduced on amd64 with ncurses build with
minmal.

minimal is irrelevant, as is uclibc

file a new bug about dpkg failing to build when ncurses is built with
USE=-unicode

(In reply to comment #5)
> minimal is irrelevant, as is uclibc
> 
> file a new bug about dpkg failing to build when ncurses is built with
> USE=-unicode
> 

New bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217046