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authorjlam <jlam>2001-07-16 11:06:48 +0000
committerjlam <jlam>2001-07-16 11:06:48 +0000
commitc3a58e1f0787e4684d24a32328446236794cb315 (patch)
treec72dfb3950057cb6e9f25c5eb8e306066669480d /Packages.txt
parentfffadd84d40193825a7fd33dfdaa2135d7ebe04e (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-c3a58e1f0787e4684d24a32328446236794cb315.tar.gz
Note special handling of ncurses/buildlink.mk and USE_NCURSES.
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-# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.171 2001/07/16 11:00:32 jlam Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.172 2001/07/16 11:06:48 jlam Exp $
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@@ -1590,6 +1590,13 @@ buildlink.mk files:
USE_SSL --> .include "../../security/openssl/buildlink.mk"
USE_XPM --> .include "../../graphics/xpm/buildlink.mk"
+In addition, packages that have an explicit dependency on ncurses should
+set USE_NCURSES to the reason why the system curses is insufficient, and
+include "../../devel/ncurses/buildlink.mk" afterwards. This helps to
+identify where the system curses differs from ncurses, and when the
+development of the system curses catches up in functionality, the
+USE_NCURSES setting may be removed.
+
The use of EVAL_PREFIX to find the installation prefix for packages may be
removed since references to package library and header files are found
through ${BUILDLINK_DIR}. If the required dependency pattern for a package