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