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

[Chris Allegretta]

Heh.  pkg-config I do have installed, but am still getting the error I
mentioned:

address@hidden:~/nano$ autoreconf
address@hidden:~/nano$ make 2>&1 | tail -5
checking for _doprnt... no
checking for getopt_long... yes
./configure: line 7768: syntax error near unexpected token `NCURSESW,'
./configure: line 7768: `       PKG_CHECK_MODULES(NCURSESW, ncursesw,'
make: *** [config.status] Error 2
address@hidden:~/nano$ locate pkg.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4

I thought you meant there was a separate dev package required, my
apologies.  is there a specific minimum version required?


On 4/1/14, Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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