Bug 458614

Summary:	app-misc/screen-4.0.3-r6 with sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo] - configure: error: !!! no tgetent - no screen
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Travis Hansen <travisghansen>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sven Wegener <swegener>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	flameeyes, shell-tools
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	457530
Attachments:	Link against tinfo patch to link with tinfo

Description Travis Hansen 2013-02-21 16:13:12 UTC

configure: checking libncurses...
configure: error: !!! no tgetent - no screen


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-05 10:59:23 UTC

*** Bug 459658 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Andreas Schäfer 2013-04-02 20:47:19 UTC

Created attachment 344118 [details]
Link against tinfo

Comment 3 Andreas Schäfer 2013-04-02 20:49:08 UTC

Occurs for me as well on several boxes. Steps to reproduce: 

emerge -av1 =sys-libs/readline-6.2_p4

The attached patch fixes the compilation for me. Please note that it is not sufficient to just "append-ldflags -L. -ltinfo".

Comment 4 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-03 06:29:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Created attachment 344118 [details]
> Link against tinfo

LDFLAGS are not for libs.

Comment 5 Milan Freml 2013-04-05 20:24:50 UTC

Created attachment 344554 [details]
patch to link with tinfo

Supplied patch adds -ltinfo and compiles screen-4.0.3-r8.ebuild; It should be relatively easy to create screen-4.0.3-r9.ebuild...

Comment 6 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-06 07:00:51 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Created attachment 344554 [details]
> patch to link with tinfo
> 
> Supplied patch adds -ltinfo and compiles screen-4.0.3-r8.ebuild; It should
> be relatively easy to create screen-4.0.3-r9.ebuild...

you need to use pkg-config to detect the libs. YOur patch will fail on system not having libtinfo

Comment 7 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-06 09:06:33 UTC

+  06 Apr 2013; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> screen-4.0.3-r6.ebuild,
+  screen-4.0.3-r7.ebuild, screen-4.0.3-r8.ebuild, metadata.xml:
+  Add fix for detection of tgetent in ncurses/tinfo, #458614
+