[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] bad configure detection for termcap

[Bernd Ernesti]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 04:26:45PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 December 2005 at 16:09, Bernd Ernesti wrote:

[using ncurses as the default termcap library]

> > I'm not too happy with that change.
> > 
> > Do we really need to depend on ncurses?
> 
> We don't depend on it. It's just checked for first.

Which then results in a dependency to ncurses.

> > ncurses is not in the base system for NetBSD and other systems.
> > It maybe there for other programs which really need it, but I see no need
> > for mplayer.
> > The library for ncurses is over 250KB big where termcap is only 12KB.
> 
> Well, it's newer and not broken like termcap (which dumps core when terminal
> description has more than 1024 bytes).

That depends on the termcap library and is not true for NetBSD since the last
millenium. It is still the fact the it uses a much bigger library for which there
is no real need.
And you should have a fixed termcap database if you use a broken termcap library.

> > At least make it possible to force the usage of termcap, or only change the order
> > for linux systems.
> 
> It's still (and has been for a long time) possible using --enable-termcap
> and --with-termcaplib=termcap.

Ok, but I still see no reasons to change the order which libraries are found.

Bernd

P.S. I used the wrong From: address and tried to cancel the old pedding mail via
the http url http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/confirm/mplayer-dev-eng/xxxx but that
didn't work.