On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 11:59 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
>
> On 7/4/24 4:16 PM, Rosen Penev wrote:
> > ncurses seems to only create ncursesw.pc when wide is enabled. Which is
> > problematic as readline.pc ends up with Requires: ncurses which does not
> > exist.
> >
> > Swapped to test for ncursesw first as both libraries exist but only
> > ncursesw.pc exists.
>
> Thanks for the report and fix. This seems like something ncurses should
> fix.
Probably not. The ncurses project seems to hate pkgconfig and instead
recommends using ncurses6-config. pc files with ncurses for example
are disabled by default. Which is a problem here as readline.pc is
enabled by default and there's no readline-config script (as there
shouldn't be).
>
> Chet
>
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