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Bug 457556 - sys-apps/texinfo-4.13-r2 fails with ncurses[tinfo]
Summary: sys-apps/texinfo-4.13-r2 fails with ncurses[tinfo]
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.p...
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Blocks: tinfo
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Reported: 2013-02-14 16:50 UTC by Travis Hansen
Modified: 2013-03-05 09:32 UTC (History)
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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