Bug 493390

Summary:	sys-devel/gettext-0.18.3.1 should optionally depend on sys-libs/ncurses
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Arc Riley <arc>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch for gettext-0.18.3.1-r2

Description Arc Riley 2013-12-05 15:51:26 UTC

Created attachment 364672 [details, diff]
patch for gettext-0.18.3.1-r2

ncurses is now an optional dependency;

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-April/077728.html

This is especially important for cross-compiling to platforms that don't support ncurses (eg, mingw) and the patch is very simple.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-12-16 07:21:42 UTC

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Add USE=ncurses flag to control ncurses dependency
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.18.2.ebuild?r1=1.13&r2=1.14
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.18.3.1-r1.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3