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has caused the report #891782,
regarding iprutils: broken ncurses check in configure.ac
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Brian King <[email protected]>
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891782: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891782
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Hi,
The attached bug report seems like something that should be sorted out
upstream. Perhaps the right thing is to switch to using pkg-config for
this?
(Also, while I'm here, there seems to be a commit for version 2.4.16 in
git, but no git tag and no file release on SourceForge?)
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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Source: iprutils
Version: 2.4.15.1-2
Tags: upstream
The following test for ncurses CFLAGS in configure.ac is flawed:
,----
| ncurses_include=$(ncurses5-config --cflags)
| if test -n ${ncurses_include}; then
| CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} ${ncurses_include}"
| fi
`----
The first problem is that ncurses_include can and does include spaces,
and its improper quoting leads to the following funny message seen on
the buildds:
./configure: line 12105: test: -D_GNU_SOURCE: binary operator expected
The second problem is that ncurses5-config is about to go away in favor
of ncurses6-config, when building iprutils with libncurses-dev from
experimental I see a different error:
./configure: line 12104: ncurses5-config: command not found
Obviously the package builds anyway, so maybe the best way to fix this
test is just to remove it.
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