Re: test for curses before bootstrap

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

David Griffith wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be a good idea to include a check for curses headers during
> > bootstrap? I know its RTFM, but it may be non-trivial to track down why
> > the bootstrap stoped.
> >
> > Something like this:
> >
> >   echo_msg "Looking for curses header files"
> >   if [ ! -f /usr/include/curses.h ] || [ ! -f /usr/include/ncurses.h ]; 
> > then
> >           die "You need curses header files to bootsrap pkgsrc (see 
> > README.$opsys)"
> >   fi
>
> Most Linux distros seem to have a default lack of a development headers,
> so this sounds like a very good idea.

I PRed this two years ago after experiencing a bootstrap failure:
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=28926
I included a patch in the PR but it (or something equivalent) hasn't
been committed.

Regards,

Dave