Subject: Re: bash should depend on ncurses under Linux
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/25/2003 11:15:58
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Pkgsrc should modify the build so that the configure step does not see,
> and the build step does not link against, ncurses.

That would be fine if the other operating systems provided an alternative.
Not all systems provide libtermcap. (In my other email, I think I
mentioned some examples. And as far as I can tell, there is not an
official download version of libtermcap available any more to base a
package on.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/