Bug#749911: libcurses-perl: FTBFS on hurd-i386: outdated c-gnu.h

[Pino Toscano]

Hi,

On 2014-05-30 17:07, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Pino Toscano wrote:
>> The problem is that the "hints" header c-gnu.h, provided by the 
>> Debian
>> patch libcurses-perl_hurd1.debdiff, is not up-to-date w.r.t. the
>> changes done upstream between 1.28 and 1.31 to the "hints" headers.
>>
>> Attached there is an updated version of the hurd patch, which allows
>> libcurses-perl to build again. Would it be possible to forward it
>> upstream, so this header will need less Debian-specific handling?
>
> Without having looked at it and just based on your description: Is
> there a chance that neither we nor upstream will have to ship that
> file and keep it uptodate, but that we build-depend on something on
> hurd-i386 only and we just have to "#include" that?

Unless upstream changes the way those ncurses "hints" header work,
I'd say working around it locally just makes things worse.

For the rest, I guess it might be better to take a look at the actual
files in the hints/ subdirectory.

-- 
Pino Toscano