Bug 111961 – ncurses should be built with --enable-const

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Horst Schirmeier 2005-11-09 04:56:15 UTC]

As pointed out by
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/n/ncurses/ncurses_5.4-4/changelog#versionversion5.2-1
(check the referred bug reports on the "Add --enable-const" log entry), ncurses
should be built with the --enable-const configure flag to correct the otherwise
broken ncurses API. This allows more software packages to be compiled with
-Werror enabled.
                                                                               
                                                           
As a sidenote, Debian 3.1, SuSE 9.3
(ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3/suse/src/ncurses-5.4-68.src.rpm) and
FreeBSD 5.4 ship their ncurses package with this setting enabled.              
                                                                               
       
                                                                               
                                                           
After installing ncurses with --enable-const, I ran a rebuild of all packages
depending on ncurses on my x86 system (list attached) and did not encounter any
problems.

[Comment 1 Horst Schirmeier 2005-11-09 04:57:21 UTC]

Created attachment 72487 [details]
package-list.txt

list of remerged ebuilds on my system that depend on ncurses

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-11-09 18:46:52 UTC]

added to 5.5-r1, thanks for pointing this out

[Comment 3 Axel Dyks 2006-01-30 11:20:15 UTC]

...but app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.4.1-r2 will fail to build.
See: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116784

Axel

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2006-01-30 11:23:03 UTC]

crappy packages (like mit-krb5) do not concern  me

[Comment 5 Axel Dyks 2006-01-30 16:07:37 UTC]

To my knowledge it's the package that provides "virtual/krb5"
for the current profile(s).

... and why -- if it's crap -- do you release such a package?
... or why -- if it's not -- do you call it crap?

Axel