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1.5.25 cf. 1.7.1: an odd packaging finding for *curses.h


I just tried to build an old version of nano, a task frequently performed in the past. The build worked in 1.5.25 but failed in 1.7.1 for the first time that I can ever recall and a comparison of output from ./configure shows

diff 1.5.25.log 1.7.1.log
78c78
< checking for strcasestr... no
---
checking for strcasestr... yes
86,91c86,91
< checking curses.h usability... yes
< checking curses.h presence... yes
< checking for curses.h... yes
< checking ncurses.h usability... yes
< checking ncurses.h presence... yes
< checking for ncurses.h... yes
---
checking curses.h usability... no
> checking curses.h presence... no
checking for curses.h... no
> checking ncurses.h usability... no
checking ncurses.h presence... no
> checking for ncurses.h... no

This is a bit odd. Ignoring the reference to strcasestr,
in 1.5.25 I have

/usr/include> ls -al *curses.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Jan 19 08:43 curses.h -> ncurses/curses.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Jan 19 08:43 ncurses.h -> ncurses/ncurses.h

but in 1.7.1 I have

/usr/include> ls -al *curses.h
/bin/ls: cannot access *curses.h: No such file or directory

/usr/include> cd ncurses
/usr/include/ncurses> ls -al *curses*h
-rw-r--r-- 1 2010-01-02 15:05 curses.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 2010-01-19 10:53 ncurses.h -> curses.h

So in 1.7.1 (i) curses.h is there but cannot be found; (ii) ncurses.h is linked to curses.h and there is no file ncurses.h.

Is this a packaging error (nothing under /usr/include/) or, here only, has something gone strangely awry during setup? Attached, cygcheck output for 1.7.1.

Thank you.

Fergus

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