Re: lang/racket broken

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 04:19:45PM +0000, pin wrote:
>> It was brought to my attention that lang/racket is currently broken, https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/1151-get-racket-810-running-on-netbsd
>> 
>> I was able to reproduce the issue.
>> 
>> I do have /usr/include/term.h in my system.
>> 
>> Does it need pkgsrc ncurses or, even ncursesw to build?
>
> I see this too. I don't understand this, the package includes
> devel/ncurses/buildlink3.mk which I understand to always pull in
> ncurses (use mk/curses.buildlink3.mk if you don't want that) - but the
> ncurses package is not installed for me (on NetBSD-current/amd64).

I just kicked off a build.

I have dim memory of builtin.mk confusion about whether base curses is
good enough, and setting some variables to declare that some features
are needed, because apparently there are many shades of curses.