Hi,

I took a closer look at this and checked what Debian is doing. I've
attached a fixup patch that changes a few things:

- use abi version 5. Some packages lock for that version explicitly.
- use linker scripts too deal with the tinfo problem
- fix some usr-merge fallout.

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 03:14:19PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
> ---
>  .../0001-teach-ncurses-config-about-sysroot.patch  | 39 +++++-----
>  patches/{ncurses-5.9 => ncurses-6.1}/series        |  0
>  rules/ncurses.make                                 | 87 +++++++++++-----------
>  3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
>
[...]
> diff --git a/rules/ncurses.make b/rules/ncurses.make
> index c2fcde478..40be792fb 100644
> --- a/rules/ncurses.make
> +++ b/rules/ncurses.make
> @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ PACKAGES-$(PTXCONF_NCURSES) += ncurses
>  #
>  # Paths and names
>  #
> -NCURSES_VERSION	:= 5.9
> +NCURSES_VERSION	:= 6.1
>  NCURSES_MAJOR	:= $(word 1,$(subst ., ,$(NCURSES_VERSION)))
> -NCURSES_MD5	:= 8cb9c412e5f2d96bc6f459aa8c6282a1
> +NCURSES_MD5	:= 98c889aaf8d23910d2b92d65be2e737a
>  NCURSES		:= ncurses-$(NCURSES_VERSION)
>  NCURSES_SUFFIX	:= tar.gz
>  NCURSES_URL	:= $(call ptx/mirror, GNU, ncurses/$(NCURSES).$(NCURSES_SUFFIX))
> @@ -31,58 +31,57 @@ NCURSES_LICENSE_FILES	:= \
>  # Prepare
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> -NCURSES_ENV := \
> +NCURSES_CONF_TOOL := autoconf
> +NCURSES_CONF_ENV := \
>  	$(CROSS_ENV) \
>  	TIC_PATH="$(PTXCONF_SYSROOT_HOST)/bin/tic"
> -
> -NCURSES_AUTOCONF_SHARED := \

NCURSES_AUTOCONF_SHARED is used by host-ncurses, so this is still needed in
some way.

Michael

> -	--without-cxx-binding \
> -	--disable-echo \
> -	--disable-nls \
> -	--enable-const \
> -	--enable-overwrite \
> -	--libdir=/$(CROSS_LIB_DIR) \
> -	--without-debug \
> -	--without-normal \
> +# NOTE: reentrant enables opaque, which breaks other packages
> +# pthread enables reentrant, so don't enable it either
> +NCURSES_CONF_OPT := \
> +	$(CROSS_AUTOCONF_USR) \
>  	--without-ada \
> -	--without-gpm \
> +	--without-cxx \
> +	--without-cxx-binding \
> +	--enable-db-install \
>  	--without-manpages \
> +	--without-progs \
> +	--without-tack \
>  	--without-tests \
> +	--with-curses-h \
> +	--enable-pc-files \
>  	--enable-mixed-case \
> -	--with-ticlib=yes \
> +	--without-libtool \
> +	--with-shared \
> +	--with-normal \
> +	--without-debug \
> +	--without-profile \
> +	--without-cxx-shared \
> +	--with-termlib \
> +	--with-ticlib \
> +	--without-gpm \
> +	--without-dlsym \
> +	--without-sysmouse \
> +	--disable-rpath \
>  	--disable-relink \
> +	--disable-rpath-hack \
> +	--enable-overwrite \
> +	--$(call ptx/endis,PTXCONF_NCURSES_BIG_CORE)-big-core \
>  	--disable-big-strings \
> -	--disable-sp-funcs \
> +	--$(call ptx/endis,PTXCONF_NCURSES_WIDE_CHAR)-widec \
> +	--enable-ext-funcs \
> +	--enable-sp-funcs \
>  	--disable-term-driver \
> +	--enable-const \
> +	--enable-ext-colors \
>  	--disable-ext-mouse \
> -	--disable-interop \
> -	--disable-rpath \
> -	--disable-rpath-hack \
> -	--disable-ext-colors \
> +	--disable-ext-putwin \
> +	--disable-no-padding \
> +	--disable-signed-char \
> +	--disable-sigwinch \
>  	--without-pthread \
> -	--disable-reentrant
> -
> -# NOTE: reentrant enables opaque, which breaks other packages
> -# pthread enables reentrant, so don't enable it either
> -
> -# enable wide char support on demand only
> -ifdef PTXCONF_NCURSES_WIDE_CHAR
> -NCURSES_AUTOCONF_SHARED += --enable-widec
> -else
> -NCURSES_AUTOCONF_SHARED += --disable-widec
> -endif
> -
> -ifdef PTXCONF_NCURSES_BIG_CORE
> -NCURSES_AUTOCONF_SHARED += --enable-big-core
> -else
> -NCURSES_AUTOCONF_SHARED += --disable-big-core
> -endif
> -
> -NCURSES_AUTOCONF := \
> -	$(CROSS_AUTOCONF_USR) \
> -	$(NCURSES_AUTOCONF_SHARED) \
> -	--with-shared \
> -	--without-progs
> +	--disable-reentrant \
> +	--without-develop \
> +	--disable-interop
>  
>  NCURSES_CPPFLAGS := -P

This was for some problems with newer compiler versions. Is this still
needed?

Michael

>  
> @@ -96,7 +95,7 @@ ifdef PTXCONF_NCURSES_WIDE_CHAR
>  # library even if they request for the non wide char library
>  # Done by forcing the linker to use the right library instead
>  #
> -NCURSES_LIBRARY_LIST := ncurses
> +NCURSES_LIBRARY_LIST := ncurses tic tinfo
>  
>  ifdef PTXCONF_NCURSES_FORM
>  NCURSES_LIBRARY_LIST += form
> -- 
> 2.16.1
> 
> 
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