Bug 305889

Summary:	sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r3: Building with --disable-leaks not possible (fix included)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nikolas Garofil <nikolas>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dickey, mgorny
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nikolas Garofil 2010-02-19 15:22:07 UTC

Ncurses builds with --with-leaks or --without-leaks depending on the whether the debug use-flag has been set, but these options are not recognized by the configure script, it should be --disable-leaks instead. When you change "$(use_with !debug leaks)" to "$(if use debug ; then echo --disable-leaks ; fi)" on line 101 of ncurses-5.7-r3.ebuild then this problem is solved. You can NOT just use "$(use_enable !debug leaks)" because --enable-leaks has the same effect as --disable-leaks .

PS: If you fix this, can you place my name or e-mail address in the changelog, I'm looking for a job at the moment and i would like some proof that i'm active in the open source world, thanks ;)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-03-06 23:12:36 UTC

then we should fix ncurses so that we can use use_enable.  i think this should do it:
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.7-r3.ebuild?r1=1.9&r2=1.10

btw, simpler workaround would be $(use debug && echo --disable-leaks)

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-03-06 23:12:51 UTC

Thomas: simple fix for you:
    sed -i '/with_no_leaks=yes/s:=.*:=$enableval:' aclocal.m4

this way --enable-leaks and --disable-leaks both work instead of --enable-leaks having the same meaning as --disable-leaks

Comment 3 Thomas Dickey 2010-03-07 01:09:12 UTC

thanks (added to to-do list)