On 21.02.2020 07:20, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 03:01:45AM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> I consider calling ncurses-dev essential as a bug. > > My knee jerk reaction was: if a unix compiler needs terminfo (especially > when it only does that to create coloured unreadable messages) it needs > to be moved to pkgsrc. Same goes for a command line debugger. > > But if I understood Joerg's (extremely terse) objection: > there should be logic in the tools build dealing with missing terminfo > libs and this case needs more analyzis to understand why it fails. > > Martin > This patch changes cryptic failure in linking to a verbose message: http://netbsd.org/~kamil/patch-00231-llvm-terminfo-tools.txt Does it look to commit? A real fix (assuming we want terminfo in tools) is to build terminfo together with tools. I defer this to someone else.
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