Re: [arch-dev-public] termcap-compat dependencies

Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Jan de Groot wrote:

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Hello devs,

Today I was upgrading genius and found out it had dependencies on termcap-compat. Lookin in the configure file, it checks like this:

checking for -ltermcap -> yes: link to -ltermcap, no: check for -lncurses

I've seen some bugs last week that involved termcap-compat dependencies as a result of building on a system which is not clean (to the devs not doing it yet: build in chroots, not on your working system which is polluted with unneeded packages and AUR stuff). These bugs were fixed by actually adding these dependencies.

Please don't add additional dependencies like this old deprecated termcap-compat package just because a bug was reported, but please check out if it's really needed as dependency and leave it out when possible.

And given this is the second post mentioning using chroots, I will bump the wiki page I wrote: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot

Shouldn't the last line be "sudo mkarchroot -u <chrootdir>/root" not "<chrootdir>/repo" ?

Huh... I'm sure it says root! :P