clone 575220 -1
reassign -1 ncurses-bin
found -1 5.7+20100313-1
retitle -1 ncurses: causes slang2 miscompiliation [hppa, i386]
block 575220 by -1
thanks

On 2010-03-24 18:59 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

> Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> (24/03/2010):
>> [ CC'ing ncurses maintainers. ]
>
> Yep, I wanted to do the same but either failed or forgot. My ncurses
> build is still running on paer, I wanted to have (pre)processed files
> before looking deeper.
>
>> This seems to be a fallout of the fix for #509919.  FWIW, I get
>> /usr/share/terminfo here (on i386) as well.

And also a miscompiled libslang2 in a pbuilder chroot where that
directory does not exist.

> I only very quickly looked into it, but that sounds likely. I've
> checked that the configure parameters were the same on different
> architectures, I believe autodetection is acting differently across
> architectures. Maybe it'd be nice to fix that bit…

I'll have a look at the build logs when I have time, but as a stop-gap
measure…

>> Maybe it would help if we shipped /usr/share/terminfo in
>> ncurses-base again?  There used to be symlinks to the files in
>> /lib/terminfo there, but I removed them as libncurses does not need
>> them (the library looks in /etc/terminfo, /lib/terminfo and
>> /usr/share/terminfo).
>
> … but that might also do the job.

…I would prefer to just ship /usr/share/terminfo in some package (which
one?), as indeed "mkdir -p /usr/share/terminfo" was enough to build
slang2 correctly.

Sven



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