On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 04:00:56PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Source: dialog
> Version: 1.3-20240307-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: cross-satisfiability
> 
> Hi Santiago,
> 
> we want to remove the package libtool-bin from the archive, because any
> attempt of using it breaks cross compilation. The dialog package is a
> bit strange in this regard. It's autoconf stuff attempts to detect
> whether there is a libtool.m4 and when there isn't attempts to use a
> pre-configured libtool (the one from libtool-bin). Unfortunately, last
> time it was autoreconf'ed, that happened without libtool.m4. So
> basically, making libtool-bin go away here amounts to autoreconfing
> dialog after libtoolizing it. And that's pretty much what I did in the
> attached patch. The dialog binary and libdialog.la are bit-identical
> with this change.

hmm - there are two sets of changes - I don't see a reason for the
change to the curses function checks.

(as for libtool - I recall commenting on that, recently)

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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