Re: Order of checking for readline support

Sounds fine.  The only question is whether we want to do this during RC.
I suppose the build farm has enough coverage to allow it.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Currently, configure checks for the readline support packages in the
> order
>     -ltermcap -lncurses -lcurses
> I would like to change this to
>     -lncurses -ltermcap -lcurses
> The reason is that Fedora is deprecating termcap and planning to remove
> it (see attached).  Comments?  Anyone know of a platform this would
> produce bad results on?
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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> Date:    Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:45:15 +0100
> From:    Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
> To:      fedora-maintainers@redhat.com
> Subject: libtermcap => libncurses
> 
> Hi,
> 
> here is the list of packages that are now depending on
> libtermcap.so.2. These packages need to be rebuilt against libncurses,
> as we would like to have termcap and libtermcap dropped since FC7.
> 
> Please change BuildRequires to ncurses-devel and link with -lncurses
> instead of -ltermcap. If the package needs to include termcap.h, the
> file is in /usr/include/ncurses.
> 
> Drop me an email if you don't have time to do this, and I will take
> care of your packages.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Core packages:
> 
> amanda
> amanda-client
> amanda-server
> bash
> bc
> festival
> gnupg
> gnuplot
> gnutls-utils
> guile
> lv
> pilot-link
> postgresql
> postgresql-contrib
> postgresql-devel
> postgresql-server
> procinfo
> python
> quagga
> ruby-libs
> tcsh
> util-linux
> xfsprogs
> zsh
> 
> Extras:
> 
> abiword
> clips
> clisp
> cyphesis
> darcs
> genius
> ghc66
> ginac-utils
> gnome-genius
> gnucap
> gnupg2
> gpsim
> grads
> hugs98
> js
> koffice-kexi
> ktechlab
> lash
> maxima-runtime-clisp
> mono-debugger
> ngspice
> nmh
> octave-forge
> opensc
> pari-gp
> php-readline
> pl
> q
> q-devel
> R
> rlwrap
> ucblogo
> yafc
> yap
> yaz
> 
> -- 
> Miroslav Lichvar
> 
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