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

[w9ya]

Hey Ervin and the gang;

Please hold off on installing Archlinux....(its a major amount of work
actually).

I'd like to try the solution(s) in the link for "discussion 72" first.

Tnxs om's es vy 73 de bob w9ya

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:02 AM, Ervin Hegedüs <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 08:09:51PM -0700, w9ya wrote:
>> 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.)
>
> interesting - there was an affected issue, which had been fixed
> by Thomas:
>
> https://github.com/Tlf/tlf/issues/72
>
> related commit:
> https://github.com/Tlf/tlf/commit/e4d9e86a8516de7d3416e9a190e9af229a1f6ecf
>
> but this was on 13rd of Dec, 2016. 1.2.3 had released on 16th of
> Jan, 2016.
>
>> 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]$
>
> probably you're using ArchLinux - may be it's a new bug.
>
>> SO....*If* I am reading the Changelog correctly this "bug" was
>> introduced on 15-dec-2015 .
>
> may be you're close that the real problem. (the Changelog
> contains 2015-12-19, not 15 - but it doesn't matter...)
>
>> 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.)
>
> I'll try to install an ArchLinux to a VM, and try to reproduce
> your problem - I need some time...
>
>
> 73, Ervin
> HA2OS
>