[Buildroot] [PATCH] pakage/erlang: fix host build without termcap (curses) library
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Nov 18 17:49:18 UTC 2014
Thomas, All,
On 2014-11-18 09:31 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:33:16 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Cc-ing Nathaniel, as all failures happen on his build server. Thomas and
> > Nathaniel, could you please review the setting of that autobuild server?
> > And the others as well?
>
> We already discussed this on the mailing list some time ago.
> Nathaniel's build server is the only one where libncurses-dev is not
> installed in the system. And since libncurses-dev is not part of our
> mandatory dependencies (someone could very well use gconfig or xconfig
> only, for example), we thought that keeping Nathaniel's configuration
> as is was a good way of catching the cases where we have a missing
> dependency on host-ncurses.
>
> I remember we even had a discussion to decide whether we should build
> host-ncurses in such cases, or whether we should make libncurses-dev a
> hard dependency of Buildroot, and Peter decided that building
> host-ncurses was the right solution.
I fully back this resolution. It is very often that a build server
(whether it is for us to do autobuilds, or a production build server)
lacks such libraries.
So, we have to fix such build failures by either:
- adding a dependency on host-ncurses, or
- disabling ncurses/termcap support for the host tools if it makes
sense and it is possible, otherwise revert to depending on
host-ncurses.
Thank you!
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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