Request 242 was acted upon.
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URL: https://rt.openpkg.org/id/242
Ticket: [OpenPKG #242]
Subject: python-2.2.3-1.3.0 and ncurses-5.3.20030726-1.3.0
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Queue: openpkg
Owner: Nobody
Status: open
Transaction: Correspondence added by mlelstv
Time: Fri Aug 29 10:06:06 2003
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003, Karl Vogel via RT wrote:
Karl,
> Python looks for ncurses.h in %{l_prefix}/include whereas it is installed in
> a sub directory %{l_prefix}/include/ncurses.
python either must not look at ncurses at all or must explicitely depend
on the the ncurses package.
> This is easily fixed with
> adding:
>
> ln -s ncurses/ncurses.h ncurses.h
>
> to the ncurses package. Red Hat also links to ncurses/curses.h, maybe adding
> that also, will fix some other built problems too?!
While that is a simple trick, it clutters the namespace for include files.
We would have to force more packages to ignore the header when it were
visible at the top level directory.
The correct way is to provide an include path to the ncurses subdirectory
if and only if the package also has a dependency to the ncurses package.
I'll have a look.
Greetings,
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