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
