Re: teTeX 3.0 +Suse9.2

    because of missing ncurses headers

This has always been a problem.  Looking at the code to handle this in
texinfo's configure.ac, it seems rather redundantly strange.  (It's
evolved over many years.)

Unfortunately I cannot easily do anything about it, since my original
code worked for me, and I don't have access to the systems which cause
the trouble, and they seem to rather wildly vary, anyway.  (SuSE, AIX,
HP-UX, from the notes below.)  If anyone has any interest in helping
clean this up, let me know.

As for configure bailing out, I'm not sure it would be a good idea for
configure to omit building info if it doesn't find a library.  That
could easily cause even more confusion.  

Info does not really care what the terminal library is; it can get along
with very minimal features.  You'd think this would not be so difficult ...

karl


# Some GNU/Linux systems (e.g., SuSE 4.3, 1996) don't have curses, but
# rather ncurses.  So we check for it.
TERMLIBS=
# Check for termlib before termcap because Solaris termcap needs libucb.
TERMLIB_VARIANTS="ncurses curses termlib termcap terminfo"
for termlib in ${TERMLIB_VARIANTS}; do
  AC_CHECK_LIB(${termlib}, tgetent,
     [TERMLIBS="${TERMLIBS} -l${termlib}"; break])
done
# don't bother warning on djgpp, it doesn't have a term library, it
# ports each termcap-needing program separately according to its needs.
if test -z "$TERMLIBS" && echo "$build" | grep -v djgpp >/dev/null; then
  AC_MSG_WARN([probably need a terminal library, one of: ${TERMLIB_VARIANTS}])
fi

# Checks for variables.
# HP-UX 9 (at least) needs -lncurses which defines termcap variables PC etc.
AC_MSG_CHECKING(for library with termcap variables)
AC_CACHE_VAL(ac_cv_var_ospeed,
oldLIBS=$LIBS
for trylib in $termlib ${TERMLIB_VARIANTS}; do
   if test "x$trylib" != "x$termlib"; then
     LIBS="$oldLIBS -l$termlib -l$trylib"
   else
     LIBS="$oldLIBS -l$termlib"
   fi
   AC_TRY_LINK(,
[#ifdef HAVE_NCURSES_TERMCAP_H
#include <ncurses/termcap.h>
#else
#ifdef HAVE_TERMCAP_H
#include <termcap.h>
#else
#undef PC
char *BC;
char **UP;
char PC;
short ospeed;
#endif
#endif
/* Make sure all variables actually exist.  AIX 4.3 has ospeed but no BC.
   --Andreas Ley <[email protected]> 24 Aug 2000.  */
BC++;
UP++;
PC++;
return ospeed != 0;
], ac_cv_var_ospeed=$trylib; break)
done
LIBS=$oldLIBS
)
AC_MSG_RESULT($ac_cv_var_ospeed)
if test -n "$ac_cv_var_ospeed" \
   && test "x$termlib" != "x$ac_cv_var_ospeed"; then
  TERMLIBS="${TERMLIBS} -l${ac_cv_var_ospeed}"
fi
AC_SUBST(TERMLIBS)#

# Do not use <ncurses/termcap.h> unless we're linking with ncurses.
# Must come after the termlib tests.
if test "x$termlib" = xncurses; then
  # Use AC_CHECK_HEADERS so the HAVE_*_H symbol gets defined.
  AC_CHECK_HEADERS(ncurses/termcap.h)
fi