In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.1000406032638.28046A-100000@localhost>,
Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org> wrote:
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>The ncurses detection was horribly ugly and broke on
>a) systems where libncurses was installed in /usr/local/lib
That's funny -- isn't /usr/local/lib one of the standard places
where cc looks for libraries?
In any case, that patch went in because the original code was
failing because libncurses lived in /usr/elf/lib, and even though
gcc knew to look there, the lxdialog script didn't. Will your
patch find libncurses when it's in some arbitrary location that
the C compiler knows about?
>If you are encouraging people to do things the way way lxdialog did it,
>I can only say "God have mercy on our souls".
The current lxdialog method uses the compiler to check and see if
the libraries it needs are available. This is GOOD; don't break
this behavior.
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