Re: ANN: NetworkManager 0.9.9.98 (0.9.10-rc1) released

[Vincent Bernat <bernat luffy cx>]

 ❦ 25 juin 2014 21:36 -0500, Robby Workman <robby rlworkman net> :

> Okay, looks like that's ncurses, so let's link ncurses too:
>
>   [rworkman liberty NetworkManager-0.9.9.98]$ gcc -o testrl -lreadline -lncurses testrl.c 
>   [rworkman liberty NetworkManager-0.9.9.98]$ strings testrl | grep readline
>   libreadline.so.6
>   readline
>   readline
>
> Now, here's where I'm unclear.  If I add LDFLAGS="-lnurses" to the configure
> environment, the test passes and the complete build occurs successfully.
> What's unclear is *why* that's needed -- is this an omission in the NM
> sources (isn't nmtui a curses client and thus ncurses should be linked?)
> or is something different about how we (Slackware) build readline?

GNU readline requires linking to ncurses as well to get termcap
symbols. Here is an autoconf recipe for that:
 http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_lib_readline.html

> On a related note, assuming ncurses *should* be linked in too, then 
> should we uses ncursesw instead of ncurses?

It doesn't matter as only termcap symbols are needed.
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