Re: [ptxdist] ncurses 6.3 compile error

[Bruno Thomsen <bruno.thomsen@gmail.com>]

Hi Christian,

Den man. 21. nov. 2022 kl. 17.09 skrev Christian Melki
<christian.melki@t2data.com>:
>
> Hi Bruno,
>
> Did you solve your issue?

I got the configure step working by adding autogen.sh symbolic link to
patch directory.
But then I hit a compile error.

I saw that Fedora[1] carried some patches but did not yet test them in
ptxdist context.
At the moment I just use the old 6.2 version.

/Bruno

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ncurses/tree/rawhide

>
> For whatever reason, I tripped on the same error.
> Now, I can't follow the reasoning, the behavior, the patches or actually
> anything in the ncurses development. To me it's just a black box of
> strangeness.
>
> Either way. I concluded that for unidentified reasons I needed:
> https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.3/ncurses-6.3-20211026.patch.gz
> added to the patchset.
>
> Literally the first in the series for 6.3.
>
> Maybe someone more versed can make sense of the discussion here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2021-10/msg00040.html
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>
> On 10/30/22 20:47, Christian Melki wrote:
> > On 10/30/22 15:19, Christian Melki wrote:
> >> On 10/30/22 12:08, Bruno Thomsen wrote:
> >>> error: expected a pathname, not ""
> >>
> >> Hmm. That home made horror show of configuration expects
> >> --enable-pc-files if I'm not mistaken. Can that be a clue to something?
> >> But it makes me wonder how on earth this worked in the first place?
> >>
> >> /C
> >>
> >
> >
> > My bad. Ignore that. Somehow missed that the configure line already
> > contained it.
> >
> > /C
> >
>