Cannot build on archlinux.

[PhyX-Meow]

I use the aur package, and get the following error during configure:

configure: error: not found: library containing symbol tgoto; tried libcurses, libncurses, and libtinfo)

I have ncurses version 6.5-3 installed, and I can find that symbol in libncursesw.so.

[d-torrance]

It looks like we're not looking for the "w" version of libncurses. Does adding it to the list of libraries to check work? In particular:

--- a/M2/configure.ac
+++ b/M2/configure.ac
@@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ fi
 
 # the order of these segments also reflects dependencies
 AC_LANG(C)
-AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgoto,curses tinfo ncurses,,AC_MSG_ERROR([[not found: library containing symbol tgoto; tried libcurses, libncurses, and libtinfo)]]))
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgoto,curses tinfo ncurses ncursesw,,AC_MSG_ERROR([[not found: library containing symbol tgoto; tried libcurses, libncurses, and libtinfo)]]))
 if test $BUILD_readline = no
 then AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/readline.h,,BUILD_readline=yes)
 fi

[PhyX-Meow]

Tried, does not work. I found that the configure is done with no error if I run it manually with same args as in PKGBUILD, but fails if running by makepkg. So maybe it is an issue with the arch build system?

[d-torrance]

Maybe? I'm not familiar with makepkg. Is there a way to set the build flags? Perhaps adding -L/foo/bar to LDFLAGS, where `/foo/bar/ is the directory containing libncurses, would help?