Re: 01/03: gnu: Add ncurses-with-gpm.

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Ludo,

On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:14:39 +0200
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> I’m really happy to see you continue John’s heroic work on the
> installer!  I’ll be happy to give it a spin when you deem appropriate.

Okay.  Still some loose ends to tie up first :)

> > +(define-public ncurses/gpm
> > +  (package
> > +    (inherit ncurses)
> > +    (name "ncurses-with-gpm")
> > +    (arguments
> > +        (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments ncurses)
> > +         ((#:configure-flags cf)
> > +          `(cons (string-append "--with-gpm=" (assoc-ref %build-inputs 
> > "gpm") "/lib/libgpm.so.2") ,cf))))
> > +    (inputs
> > +     `(("gpm" ,gpm)))))  
> 
> Does it need the full file name of the .so?  Would be nicer if this
> could be avoided, to avoid breakage in the future.

I tried it - apparently it does need it.

With all this "ncurses/fixed" stuff in master, should I make it inherit from 
ncurses/fixed ?