From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from simark.ca (simark.ca [158.69.221.121]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A1743857C56 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:21:26 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 7A1743857C56 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=simark.ca Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=simark@simark.ca Received: from [172.16.0.95] (192-222-181-218.qc.cable.ebox.net [192.222.181.218]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DFEFF1E58C; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:21:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Building gdb without ncursesw? To: psmith@gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org References: <395a06fee09377bfe6c03a6a761be6e02b9a538b.camel@gnu.org> From: Simon Marchi Message-ID: <9e754414-577e-f279-6418-b675b0c124ac@simark.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:21:25 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <395a06fee09377bfe6c03a6a761be6e02b9a538b.camel@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: tl Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: gdb@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:21:27 -0000 On 2020-10-17 6:22 p.m., Paul Smith via Gdb wrote: > On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 14:35 -0400, Paul Smith via Gdb wrote: >> There's really no need (that I can see) for ncursesw since we just >> always uses utf8 all the time for everything. > > I should clarify that by this I mean, _I_ (and the folks I work with) > have no need for it in our environment: I'm not suggesting everyone > should use utf8 and no one has any need for ncursesw. Looking at configure.ac, the library is chosen using this line: AC_SEARCH_LIBS(waddstr, [ncursesw ncurses cursesX curses]) Then, looking at my config.cache, I see this line: ac_cv_search_waddstr=${ac_cv_search_waddstr=-lncursesw} So I suppose that if you pass ac_cv_search_waddstr=-lncurses to configure, it will just use that instead of probing. Simon