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Re: ANN: ncurses-6.0-20171230


From: Jeffrey Walton
Subject: Re: ANN: ncurses-6.0-20171230
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:23:23 -0500

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> Files:
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/AdaCurses/current/AdaCurses-20171230.tgz
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/AdaCurses/current/AdaCurses-20171230.tgz.asc
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/AdaCurses/current/AdaCurses-small-20171230.tgz
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/AdaCurses/current/AdaCurses-small-20171230.tgz.asc
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses-examples/current/ncurses-examples-20171230.tgz
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses-examples/current/ncurses-examples-20171230.tgz.asc
>         ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.0/MD5sums
>         ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.0/dev-patches.zip
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.0/ncurses-6.0-20171230.patch.gz
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.0/ncurses-6.0-20171230.patch.gz.asc
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/ncurses-6.0-20171230.tgz
>         
> ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/ncurses-6.0-20171230.tgz.asc
>         ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/win32/mingw32-20171230.zip
>         ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/win32/mingw64-20171230.zip
>
>  ncurses 6.0 - patch 20171230 - Thomas E. Dickey

Thanks again Thomas.

One other thing I noticed... I use a script to automate building some
programs I need to update. The script configures with
--enable-pc-files.

Ncurses fails to clean:

gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/updates/Build-Scripts/ncurses-6.0/c++'
rm: cannot remove 'ncurses-6.0/misc/yes/panelw.pc': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove 'ncurses-6.0/misc/yes/ncursesw.pc': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove 'ncurses-6.0/misc/yes/formw.pc': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove 'ncurses-6.0/misc/yes/menuw.pc': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove 'ncurses-6.0/misc/yes/ncurses++w.pc': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove 'ncurses-6.0/misc/yes/tinfow.pc': Permission denied

It looks like there are some artifacts owned by root. I only use root
for 'make install'.

$ ls -Al ncurses-6.0/misc/yes/
total 13
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         496 Dec 30 21:12 formw.pc
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         496 Dec 30 21:12 menuw.pc
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         528 Dec 30 21:12 ncurses++w.pc
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         496 Dec 30 21:12 ncursesw.pc
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         498 Dec 30 21:12 panelw.pc
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         502 Dec 30 21:12 tinfow.pc

Maybe Ncurses could create the *.pc artifacts during build time as an
unprivileged user.

Jeff



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