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bug #65454: termcap compatible library may be called tinfo

Submitter:  Eli Schwartz <eschwartz>
Submitted:  Mon 11 Mar 2024 09:38:05 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Sun 24 Mar 2024 03:58:08 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Renamed 'mytinfo' to 'tinfo' in list of possible termcap libraries. 

It appears that when the list of alternate termcap library names was added to DDD in 2004, that the name of the FreeBSD library was libmytinfo.  Later changed to libtinfo. 

Fixed in commit 7471.

Michael Eager <eager>
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Mon 11 Mar 2024 09:38:05 PM UTC, original submission:  

Originally reported at https://bugs.gentoo.org/458186 -- sorry for the wait...



checking for tgetent in -lmytinfo... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
configure: error: Cannot find termcap compatible library.


To fix, in configure.ac change:

_termlib="mytinfo ncurses curses termcap terminfo termlib"

to

_termlib="mytinfo ncurses tinfo curses termcap terminfo termlib"

Patch file: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-debug/ddd/files/ddd-3.3.12-tinfo.patch

Eli Schwartz <eschwartz>

 

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