Re: broken pkg-config files

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-12-31 19:31 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:33:50PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> When configuring ncurses with the following options
>> 
>> ./configure --enable-widec --enable-pc-files --with-ticlib=tic \
>>   --with-termlib=tinfo
>> 
>> and running "sh misc/gen-pkgconfig", it prints the following:
>> 
>> ** creating ncursesw.pc
>> ** creating panelw.pc
>> ** creating menuw.pc
>> ** creating formw.pc
>> ** creating ncurses++w.pc
>> ** creating tinfow.pc
>> ** creating ticw.pc
>> 
>> And the ti{nfo,c}w.pc files are not only misnamed but also broken, since
>> they have -ltinfow and -lticw in the Libs: section, despite the
>> libraries being called tinfo and tic, respectively.
>> 
>> This seems to have been broken recently, probably with the
>> 2011126/20111210 changes.
>
> I'm puzzled: testing with your configure options (to identify the point
> at which the breakage occurred), I'm seeing only that the tic*.pc and
> tinfo*.pc files appeared recently - testing for instance 5.9, 20110716,
> 20100109).

Ah, that's quite possible.

> What was the patch-date you were using previously?

20111112, and now I see that indeed this patchlevel does not generate
any tic*.pc or tinfo*.pc with the given options.  That bug is concealed
in the Debian build, because we also build a version without
--enable-widec, and that build generates correct tic.pc and tinfo.pc
files.

So it had always been broken, actually.

> I agree that they should be named tic.pc, tinfo.pc for the given options.

And have -ltic, -ltinfo in the Libs: section.

Cheers,
       Sven