Re: [PATCH] teach ncurses-config about sysroot

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Friday, June 25, 2010 03:53:17 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Thursday, June 24, 2010 16:56:35 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> > > > > This patch teaches ncursrs-config about sysroot
> > > >
> > > > googling around, for background, I don't see that this has really become
> > > > a standard feature, but rather a niche feature.
> > >
> > > it is a niche feature.  SYSROOT isnt really standard by any means.
> > >
> > > would make more sense to create a pkg-config file for ncurses.
> >
> > That's already implemented since early 2009.
>
> that's encouraging.  i just d/led the 20100424 patch and it seems to install
> files as we'd want.
>
> the trouble is that features that arent part of a release will stay unused,
> and these arent part of ncurses-5.7 ...

I'm working on 5.8, of course (the ".pc" files were just a small feature).

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