Re: Doing more with curses.buildlink3.mk

["Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> Dieter Baron wrote:
> >   Why not use PREFER_PKGSRC, like the other checks wether to use a
> > native or a pkgsrc implementation?
>
> You're envisioning something like the following?
>
>     PREFER_PKGSRC+=    curses    # use a pkgsrc curses.
>
> I rejected this because I was looking at adding support for different 
> curses implementations in pkgsrc, and the PREFER mechanism doesn't 
> encompass that.  Eventually, I'd like for CURSES_DEFAULT to allow the 
> following values:
>
>     curses, ncurses, ncursesw, pdcurses
>
> I'd eventually like to make using ncursesw more transparent, so that all 
> packages that link against curses and use ncursesw instead.

Looking into this a little more, I don't think it's possible to just use 
ncursesw in place of ncurses when linking, so transparently compiling 
and linking with ncursesw is not going to work.  I am still working on a 
pdcurses package to allow an alternative curses implementation to be used.

        Cheers,

        -- Johnny C. Lam