Re: [Tlf-devel] Bugs....cannot complete autoreconf

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Bob,

You are right there are configuration problems wrt ncurses recognition
on some distributions after our changes at end of 2015. We found out
about it just after 1.2.4.5 came out.

In meantime it should be fixed and is one of the main points for the
shortly coming 1.3.0 version.

Could you please download the head of the master branch from github and
try that out. It should hopefully fix the problem. Furthermore there
are some problems with color and screen handling on systems with
the new ncurses6. The master branch contains fixes for that problems
too.

Please try out and report back.

73, de Tom DL1JBE


 Am Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:09:51 -0700
schrieb w9ya <address@hidden>:

> Hey all;
> 
> I *am* able to successfully compile and package v. 1.2.2 but cannot
> compile either 1.2.3 or 1.2.4.5. (I didn't try any of the releases
> between those two.)
> 
> I am getting the code from the github repo in all cases
> 
> To wit, here's that last few lines of where the PKGBUILD ( the
> packaging "recipe" which is attached below).:
> 
> "
>  address@hidden tlf]$ tail tlf-1.2.3-1-x86_64-build.log
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.50.2)
> checking for NcursesW wide-character library... yes
> checking for working ncursesw/curses.h... no
> checking for working ncursesw.h... no
> checking for working ncurses.h... yes
> checking for Curses Panel library with ncursesw/panel.h... no
> configure: error: the Curses Panel library is required
> ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().  
>     Aborting...
> address@hidden tlf]$
> "
> 
> *** Here's a few bits of additional info;
> 
> address@hidden tlf]$ pacman -Qo /usr/include/panel.h
> /usr/include/panel.h is owned by ncurses 6.0+20161224-1
> address@hidden tlf]$
> 
> SO....*If* I am reading the Changelog correctly this "bug" was
> introduced on 15-dec-2015 .
> 
> Anyways, The comments in the code indicate that this *should NOT* be a
> problem, so I am not exactly sure what is causing this. (Then again I
> am writing this email prior to doing anything much more than finding
> the problem.)
> 
> es vy 73 om de bob w9ya



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