Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] search ncurses via pkg-config first

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tue 01 Apr 2014 12:38:14 Chris Allegretta wrote:
> On 4/1/14, Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> > install the pkg-config dev package on your system to get pkg.m4, then you
> > can
> > re-run `autoreconf` to get the macros
> 
> I would, but one doesn't seem to be available on Ubuntu (13.10).

i'm absolutely sure Ubuntu provides it

> What is the package name?

no idea ... i don't run Ubuntu :)

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=pkg.m4&mode=exactfilename&suite=saucy&arch=any

> If this requires installing something from
> source I don't think that's a fair burden to put on everyone who wants
> to contribute to the tool.

it's required for anyone who wants to run `autoreconf`.  i.e. build from 
svn/git/whatever.  it is not required for anyone who wants to unpack a release 
tarball and run configure/make.  i think this is a perfectly reasonable 
requirement for people hacking on the live source ... pkg-config is extremely 
common in the open source world.
-mike

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