On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:41:31AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 
> A test for the existence of /usr/include/{n,}curses.h and the associated
> library might be a good addition. We still might want to mark
> particular operating systems as USE_NCURSES (see above).

That is certainly possible, and could be done using
gettext-lib/buildlink2.mk as an example, but it's definitely complex.

> > But it still doesn't fix my initial problem.
> > 
> > Many packages are built using some type of curses, but don't even use that
> > ncurses/buildlink2.mk (so nothing is ever registered as DEPENDS).
> 
> These packages should just add the ncurses/buildlink2.mk, that's all that's
> needed. After it is fixed, of course :)

I disagree.  I don't want to go around adding ncurses/buildlink2.mk to
Makefiles of packages that just need curses, because those packages simply
don't need ncurses, and it's misleading.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>