Re: [Tlf-devel] Fwd: Bugs....cannot complete autoreconf

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hey Bob,

very weird, but thanks for testing.

Please give us some more information so we can have a look into it:

- Your distro (archlinux?),
- your ncurses version,
- the path to the panel.h file on your system

Normally the new ax_with_curses_extra.m4 should find panel.h in the
following locations:

 /usr/include/ncursesw/panel.h
 /usr/include/panel.h
 /usr/include/ncurses/panel.h

I wonder that it stops just after the first test. Maybe your ystem has
autoconf-archive installed and configure uses an older version  of the
m4 file from that package? The macros in TLF are picked up from the
2016.03.20 version of the autoconf-archive.

73, Tom


Am Thu, 26 Jan 2017 08:29:07 -0700
schrieb w9ya <address@hidden>:

> Hey Tom and the gang;
> 
> Um...that didn't do it:
> 
> "
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
> checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.50.2)
> checking for ncursesw via pkg-config... yes
> checking for working ncursesw/curses.h... no
> checking for working ncursesw.h... no
> checking for working ncurses.h... yes
> checking for Curses Panel library with ncursesw/panel.h... no
> configure: error: the Curses Panel library is required
> ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().  
>     Aborting...
> "
> 
> Attaching a "new" PKGBUILD for 'tlf-git' .
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Thomas Beierlein <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > You are right there are configuration problems wrt ncurses
> > recognition on some distributions after our changes at end of 2015.
> > We found out about it just after 1.2.4.5 came out.
> >
> > In meantime it should be fixed and is one of the main points for the
> > shortly coming 1.3.0 version.
> >
> > Could you please download the head of the master branch from github
> > and try that out. It should hopefully fix the problem. Furthermore
> > there are some problems with color and screen handling on systems
> > with the new ncurses6. The master branch contains fixes for that
> > problems too.
> >
> > Please try out and report back.
> >
> > 73, de Tom DL1JBE
> >
> >
> >  Am Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:09:51 -0700
> > schrieb w9ya <address@hidden>:
> >  
> >> Hey all;
> >>
> >> I *am* able to successfully compile and package v. 1.2.2 but cannot
> >> compile either 1.2.3 or 1.2.4.5. (I didn't try any of the releases
> >> between those two.)
> >>
> >> I am getting the code from the github repo in all cases
> >>
> >> To wit, here's that last few lines of where the PKGBUILD ( the
> >> packaging "recipe" which is attached below).:
> >>
> >> "
> >>  address@hidden tlf]$ tail tlf-1.2.3-1-x86_64-build.log
> >> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
> >> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.50.2)
> >> checking for NcursesW wide-character library... yes
> >> checking for working ncursesw/curses.h... no
> >> checking for working ncursesw.h... no
> >> checking for working ncurses.h... yes
> >> checking for Curses Panel library with ncursesw/panel.h... no
> >> configure: error: the Curses Panel library is required  
> >> ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().  
> >>     Aborting...
> >> address@hidden tlf]$
> >> "
> >>
> >> *** Here's a few bits of additional info;
> >>
> >> address@hidden tlf]$ pacman -Qo /usr/include/panel.h
> >> /usr/include/panel.h is owned by ncurses 6.0+20161224-1
> >> address@hidden tlf]$
> >>
> >> SO....*If* I am reading the Changelog correctly this "bug" was
> >> introduced on 15-dec-2015 .
> >>
> >> Anyways, The comments in the code indicate that this *should NOT*
> >> be a problem, so I am not exactly sure what is causing this. (Then
> >> again I am writing this email prior to doing anything much more
> >> than finding the problem.)
> >>
> >> es vy 73 om de bob w  



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