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version 1.102, 2000/07/28 01:40:05

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9 FAQs & features of the package system

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9.1 Packages using GNU autoconfig

9.2 Other distrib methods than .tar.gz

9.3 Packages not creating their own subdirectory

9.4 Custom configuration process

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9.17 How to handle incrementing versions when fixing an existing package

9.18 "Could not find bsd.own.mk" - what's wrong?

9.19 Restricted packages

9.20 Packages using (n)curses

9.1 Packages using GNU autoconfig

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Line 1686 Please note that the use of NO_PACKAGE,

make variables to denote restrictions is deprecated, because they

unconditionally prevent users from generating binary packages!

9.20 Packages using (n)curses

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Some packages need curses functionality that wasn't present in NetBSD's own

curses prior to 1.4Y. For packages using such functionality there are some

variables: If USE_CURSES is set in a package's Makefile, NEED_NCURSES is

set automatically to YES or NO, depending on whether a dependency on

ncurses is needed on this system. You can use this variable to e.g. add

arguments to configure to tell the package whether to use ncurses.

Additionally, you can set REPLACE_NCURSES to some filenames; in each of

these files, each occurrence of 'ncurses' is replaced by 'curses' if the

package doesn't need ncurses. You may need this in some cases if ncurses

are installed, and the package's configure script prefers ncurses.

For example, in mail/mutt, the relevant lines are:

USE_CURSES= YES

REPLACE_NCURSES= configure configure.in

[...]

.include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"

.if defined(NEED_NCURSES) && ${NEED_NCURSES} == "YES"

CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-curses=${LOCALBASE}

.endif

Please note that the check for NEED_NCURSES has to be below the

inclusion of bsd.pkg.mk, since the variable is set there.

10 Submitting

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