On 2014-04-22 20:40 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2014-04-22 09:46 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>
>> Package: ncurses-bin
>> Version: 5.9+20140118-1
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Shouldn't ncursesw5-config and ncurses5-config be shipped with their
>> respective -dev packages?
>
> The problem here is that these scripts are not quite identical across
> architectures (different value of libdir), breaking coinstallability of
> the -dev packages. See the discussion in #480437 and #689131.
It seems that this can be fixed by completely suppressing the output of
the --libdir option. This is what Fedora is doing, I think I'll just
steal their patch.
>> Otherwise, a configure script may succeed
>> while the appropriate files are not present.
>
> Surely such a configure script would be buggy, it needs to test whether
> linking with -lncurses(w) actually works. The mere presence of the
> -config scripts cannot guarantee that in all cases anyway (think of
> cross compilation).
This problem still persists if you only have a -dev package for the
wrong architecture. I don't think there is much we can do about that,
other than advocate the use of pkg-config.
Cheers,
Sven
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