[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [patch] Startup readline segfault (PR#491)

[gs234@xxxxxxxxx (Gaute (B) Strokkenes)]

David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Jacob Luna Lundberg <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, David Pfitzner wrote:
> 
> > > > but if so it might be nice
> > > > to have the configure script look for that somehow.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately that seems rather difficult :-(

An alternative approach would be to check whether we're on a Debian or
Debian-ish system and then use dpkg or somesuch to check whether or
not a working ncurses-dev is installed.  I'm pretty sure that this can
be done in a clean way, and I could look into it if desired.

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