On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 03:28:09PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2026/01/28 17:18, Theo Buehler wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 10:36:51AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > For 7.7 I added a pkg-config file for curses (ncurses.pc) because some
> > > ports were not picking it up correctly (notably Python).
> > > 
> > > I've now run into a problem where some Python functions are disabled
> > > because it thinks we don't have ncursesw so I'd like to add at least
> > > a pkg-config file for that.
> > > 
> > > A build of ncurses from the normal upstream distribution also gives
> > > pkg-config files for the other libraries (form/formw, menu/menuw,
> > > panel/panelw) as well as those for the libraries that we don't
> > > provide - ncurses++/ncurses++w, tic, tinfo.
> > > 
> > > I'm wondering whether it would just make sense to add the .pc file
> > > that I've identified a need for, or proactively do the others as well.
> > > Any thoughts?
> > 
> > I can't think of a downside to install them all, except possibly a bit
> > of ports churn when we add them. They're tiny, easy to maintain and
> > might well save some easily avoidable headache down the road (similar
> > to the cplay case below).
> 
> fwiw, from nearly a full i386 bulk (the wrapper script I used for
> instrumentation interfered with a few ports but those aren't using
> curses anyway, and it's unlikely that ports blocked by those would
> either), the only place menuw/panelw show up is sysutils/crust (in
> kconfig), formw doesn't show up at all.
> 
> here's the complete src diff I'd like to commit.
> 
> ok?

ok tb

> (I'll also bump REVISIONs for the 30-odd ports which have a pkg-config
> check for ncursesw and regen PLIST/WANTLIB for vlc, which builds a new
> binary and plugin, but will wait a few days before doing that).

makes sense.