Re: [Powertop] [PATCH] use pkg-config to find ncurses

Hi Zero,

Based on Sergey's feedback can you send a revision for your patches?

thank you,
Alex
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> On 04/16/2014 03:54 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>> On (04/16/14 12:41), Kok, Auke-jan H wrote:
>>> ncurses by itself does not provide a pkgconfig check, it is however
>>> manually added by various distributions, but not all of them.
>>>
>>> So, the patch below breaks building powertop for those distributions.
>>>
>>
>> yes. good point. apparently ncurses provides pkg-config files these
>> days.
>> but there still may be distributions that use older ncurses versions.
>
>
> pkgconfig support was added on 20090103 according to the changelog here:
> http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html.
>
> Is is really a major concern to to require a version of ncurses released
> within the last 5 years?
>
> - -Zero
>>
>> 	-ss
>>
>>> I suggest that if you really want to make it use pkg-config, you write
>>> it in such a way that if pkg-config checking fails, it will still
>>> attempt to search for the appropriate libs instead.
>>>
>>> Auke
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
>>> <zerochaos(a)gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Original bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486124
>>
>> Depending on how ncurses is built, it may require different information
>> passed to the linker.  Use pkg-config to detect the correct information:
>>
>> --- a/configure.ac
>> +++ b/configure.ac
>> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
>>  AC_FUNC_STRTOD
>>  AC_CHECK_FUNCS([fdatasync getpagesize gettimeofday memmove memset mkdir
>> munmap pow realpath regcomp select setlocale socket sqrt strcasecmp
>> strchr strdup strerror strncasecmp strstr strtoul strtoull])
>>
>> -AC_SEARCH_LIBS([delwin], [ncursesw ncurses], [], AC_MSG_ERROR([ncurses
>> is required but was not found]), [])
>> +PKG_CHECK_MODULES(ncurses, ncurses, [LIBS="$LIBS $ncurses_LIBS"],
>> AC_MSG_ERROR([ncurses is required but was not found]))
>>
>>  has_libpci=0
>>  PKG_CHECK_MODULES([PCIUTILS], [libpci],[has_libpci=1],[
>>
>>
>> Original patch:
>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-power/powertop/files/powertop-2.4-tinfo.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup
>>
>> Please include this fix.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Zero
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Thank you,
Alexandra.