Re: ANN: ncurses-6.2-20211016

[Milan P . Stanić]

On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 15:28, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 08:23:04PM +0200, Milan P. Stanić wrote:
> > On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 13:44, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > | From: "Milan P. Stanić" <mps@arvanta.net>
> > > | To: "Ncurses Mailing List" <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
> > > | Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 8:18:25 AM
> > > | Subject: Re: ANN: ncurses-6.2-20211016
> > > 
> > > | Hi Thomas,
> > > | 
> > > | On Sun, 2021-10-17 at 00:26, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > | [...]
> > > | 
> > > |> 20211016
> > > |>        + build-fix for pmake with libtool.
> > > |>        + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and 
> > > clean up
> > > |>          shellcheck warnings.
> > > |>        + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
> > > |>        + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the 
> > > actual
> > > |>          search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from 
> > > --debug
> > > |>          (report by Pascal Pignard).
> > > 
> > > https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20211017
> > > 
> > >         + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being 
> > > returned in
> > >           the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele 
> > > Balducci).
> > 
> > Yes, my build log below is when building 6.2-20211017
> > 
> > Our option is only to make patch for configure to pass builders
> 
> for now - I'll have to sort it out and find a better solution
>  
> > > | 
> > > | this changes in configure introduced bug in Alpine linux builders
> > > | because they don't have /usr/lib/pkgconfig dir by default.
> > > | 
> > > | Here is part of  ./configure log:
> > > | -------------------------------------
> > > | checking for long file names... yes
> > > | checking if you want to use pkg-config... yes
> > > | checking for x86_64-alpine-linux-musl-pkg-config... no
> > > | checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> > > | checking for /usr/bin/pkg-config library directory... checking for first
> > > | directory... none
> > > | checking if we should install .pc files for /usr/bin/pkg-config... yes
> > > | configure: error: expected a pathname, not ""
> 
> I think that the fix for this may be small :-)

Would you mind to post this fix? I'm not much versed in
autoconf/configure and have 'fear' to make something bad for ncurses on
alpine linux now when we are in 'freeze' for next stable release.

TIA