[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] ncurses: generate libtermcap

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Pascal Mazon,

On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:54:26 +0200, Pascal Mazon wrote:
> There is no libtermcap package in buildroot, but ncurses implements termcap
> natively. Furthermore, ncurses already provides the termcap.h header file.
> 
> With this patch, we fix an issue encountered with some external toolchains
> that include a libtermcap.a (typically the GNU libtermcap version) in their
> sysroot folder.

Which external toolchains are in this situation?

> Bash, for instance, would be linking with this libtermcap while using
> headers from ncurses.
> 
> In order to be consistent, let's make sure there is only the ncurses'
> termcap library. To that effect, we:
> - remove any libtermcap.* in the staging dir,

I think this should probably not be done by the ncurses package, but as
a post-install hook of the external toolchain.

Thomas
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