[Buildroot] CMake requires ncurses

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Wed May 7 15:45:34 UTC 2014


Hi Fabio, all,

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> Dear Fabio Porcedda,
>>
>> On Wed, 7 May 2014 13:53:07 +0200, Fabio Porcedda wrote:
>>
>>> because the cmake package requires the ncurses library, what is best
>>> thing to do?
>>
>> Huh? I built CMake just yesterday, and I don't think ncurses was
>> needed. Isn't it an optional dependency?
>
> Are you sure that In your system there isn't installed the ncurses
> development package?
>

After checking cmake source, it seems ncurses is a dependency of
ccmake program (the CMake curses interface).

Its build can be disabled by adding -DBUILD_CursesDialog=OFF to the
configure command line.

@Fabio: care to test this and cook a patch if it works as expected?

Regards,

-- 
Samuel


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