Package: mped
Version: 5.1.1-1
The package description states that "Minimum Profit is a curses/GTK text
editor for programmers." Running "mped" from Konsole (the X terminal
from KDE) loads the GTK version of mped and it seems to work, but
running the same command on a text-only virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1) I
get:
f...@bar:~$ mped
No usable driver found; exiting.
f...@bar:~$
Grepping the mped source, I see that this message is specified on line
1013 of mp_core.c in the following "if" statement:
if (!TRY_DRIVERS()) {
printf("No usable driver found; exiting.\n");
exit(1);
}
and "#define TRY_DRIVERS()" is created in config.h by config.sh based on
the value of $DRIVERS in that script.
Looking at the build log
<https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=mped;ver=5.1.1-1;arch=amd64;stamp=1233288415>
for mped, there is the output from config.sh :
Testing for win32... No
Testing for ncursesw... No
Testing for KDE4... No
Testing for GTK... OK (2.0)
Configured drivers: gtk
where "Testing for ncursesw..." is line 198 of config.sh and the
subsequent "No" is line 218, which is inside the "else" cases of two
nested "if"s.
The first "if" checks the value of $WITHOUT_CURSES (and it would print
"Disabled" if the ncurses interface had been deliberately deactivated)
and the second "if" checks the return value of:
$CC $TMP_CFLAGS .tmp.c $TMP_LDFLAGS -o .tmp.o 2>> .config.log
which probably expands to:
gcc -I/usr/local/include .tmp.c -L/usr/local/lib -lncursesw -o .tmp.o
2>> .config.log
It is this command which is failing, leading to the "No" being printed
and $DRIVERS not including "ncursesw".
The build log also contains the line:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0), libgtk2.0-dev, libncurses5-dev
so maybe the build-depends should be libncursesw5-dev
<http://packages.debian.org/libncursesw5-dev> instead.
Perhaps looking in .config.log would also provide some useful information.
Best regards,
Edwin Taylor
