Bug 457556

Summary:	sys-apps/texinfo-4.13-r2 fails with ncurses[tinfo]
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Travis Hansen <travisghansen>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?38470
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	457530

Description Travis Hansen 2013-02-14 16:50:49 UTC

checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
configure: WARNING: probably need a terminal library, one of: ncurses curses termlib termcap terminfo


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-14 18:19:20 UTC

Maintainers, see blocked bug #457530 for fix.

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-03 14:59:12 UTC

terminfo should first be checked from tinfo, then fallback to ncurses
OR use pkg-config

trivial patch here:

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/texinfo/files/texinfo-4.13-tinfo.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup

+  03 Mar 2013; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> texinfo-4.13-r2.ebuild,
+  +files/texinfo-4.13-tinfo.patch:
+  Check for -ltinfo before -lncurses wrt #457556 by Travis Hansen

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-05 09:32:28 UTC

reported upstream here:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?38470