Re: ANN: ncurses-6.2-20211016

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Milan P. Stanić" <mps@arvanta.net>
| To: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com>
| Cc: "Ncurses Mailing List" <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
| Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 4:21:33 PM
| Subject: Re: ANN: ncurses-6.2-20211016

| 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.

Just before your mail, I sent a small patch which you could try,
to verify that my proposed fix also works for you.  (I tested it
here by renaming my "pkgconfig" directories to simulate the effect
of not having any).

I'd also like to keep the changes small :-)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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