Re: CVS commit: src/external/apache2/llvm/config/llvm/Config

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:13:24AM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> 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?

No, absolutely not. This is just making the problem a 100 times worse.

Joerg