On 2023-04-17 17:09 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Package: libncurses-dev
> Version: 6.4-2
> Severity: normal
>
> The libncurses-dev package ships several header files that can't be
> compiled, because they depend on ncurses_cfg.h which is not available.
>
> $ grep -rl ncurses_cfg /usr/include/
> /usr/include/tic.h
> /usr/include/curses.h
> /usr/include/nc_tparm.h
> $
The curses.h file is a false positive, as ncurses_cfg.h is only
mentioned inside a comment:
,----
| $ grep -A2 -B1 ncurses_cfg /usr/include/curses.h
| /*
| * We cannot define these in ncurses_cfg.h, since they require parameters to
be
| * passed (that is non-portable).
| */
`----
The other two files indeed #include the non-existent ncurses_cfg.h file.
Perhaps surprisingly, this is actually done on purpose, as mentioned in
the upstream NEWS file:
,----
| 20170722
| + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
| using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
| versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
| dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
`----
Supplying an empty ncurses_cfg.h file might be sufficient for your
purposes, but I don't know what these are.
Cheers,
Sven
