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Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index bb50986d5..215b48f04 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -641,12 +641,11 @@ dnl SYSV-derived systems. However, if we find terminfo and termcap dnl stuff in the same library we will use that; typically this dnl is ncurses or curses. dnl On HPUX, Hcurses is reported to work better than curses. -dnl Prefer ncurses to curses on all systems; prefer it to tinfo -dnl if we were told to use curses. tinfo isn't very common now. -AC_ARG_WITH(curses-terminfo, -AC_HELP_STRING([--with-curses-terminfo], [use terminfo support from curses library]), -[if test x$withval = xyes; then - termcap_curses_order="ncurses tinfo curses termcap" +dnl Prefer ncurses to curses on all systems. tinfo isn't very common now. +AC_ARG_WITH(term-lib, +AC_HELP_STRING([--with-term-lib=LIBS], [search space-separated LIBS for terminal handling]), +[if test x$withval != xno && test x$withval != x ; then + termcap_curses_order="$withval" AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tigetstr, [$termcap_curses_order]) else termcap_curses_order="tinfo termcap ncurses curses" @@ -677,7 +676,12 @@ dnl both available and both contain termcap functions, while dnl only [n]curses contains terminfo functions, we only link against dnl [n]curses. AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tigetflag, [$termcap_curses_order]) -AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, [$termcap_curses_order]) +AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, [$termcap_curses_order], + true, + AC_MSG_FAILURE(["No terminal handling library was found on your system. +This is probably a library called 'curses' or 'ncurses'. You may +need to install a package called 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-devel' on your +system."], 255)) AC_CHECK_HEADERS(curses.h, [], [AC_CACHE_CHECK(for Solaris 8 curses.h mistake, ac_cv_header_curses_solaris, AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <curses.h>], [], |