[BRLTTY] cannot build latest development code

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, on ven. 26 janv. 2018 10:06:31 -0500, wrote:
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2018/01/26 at 15:56 +0100]
> 
> >On Debian systems, libncursesw.so is actually a linker script that
> >pulls libtinfo:
> 
> Any idea why functions like intrflush() were moved to libtinfo? They aren't 
> terminfo functions - they're terminal handling functions.

It looks very odd to me, yes.

> Do you think our configure should force (if present) a dependency on libtinfo 
> if curses is used?

I'm afraid we might have to end up with that. Maybe configure could
check whether intrflush is available in the used curses package first,
and then try to find it in the corresponding libtinfo / libtinfow.

Samuel