Re: tack's configure script doesn't find separate tic library. (Also needlessly pulls in libncurses when libtinfo would suffice.)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:19:28PM -0500, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> When ncurses has been built with --with-ticlib, as it is in Debian's
> ncurses packages since 5.6+20071006-3, tack configures but fails to
> link, like this:

I see.  It's probably related to the previous discussion of
the "--disable-tic-depends".

In a quick check here, I see that I've been using the --with-ncurses
option for tack, which hides that problem.  You might use that as a
short-term workaround.

As for pulling in libncurses - I've a similar report for vile which is on
my to-do list, and (being reminded here) will probably reuse the
script to fix tack (and tin - offhand I don't recall other programs
that I maintain which use only the terminfo interface).
 
> This is not particularly harmful, of course: ncurses isn't exactly
> going to stop needing terminfo, and users of tack who would mind
> having libncurses installed can probably be counted on one hand (or
> less). It's just kind of annoying not to be able to avoid the
> warning...

agreed ;-)

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