Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
2 # Check ncurses compatibility
7 $cc -print-file-name=libncursesw.so | grep -q /
12 $cc -print-file-name=libncurses.so | grep -q /
17 $cc -print-file-name=libcurses.so | grep -q /
28 if [ -f /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h ]; then
29 echo '-I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>"'
30 elif [ -f /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h ]; then
31 echo '-I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses/curses.h>"'
32 elif [ -f /usr/include/ncurses.h ]; then
33 echo '-DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>"'
35 echo '-DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"'
39 # Temp file, try to clean up after us
41 trap "rm -f $tmp" 0 1 2 3 15
43 # Check if we can link to ncurses
45 echo "main() {}" | $cc -xc - -o $tmp 2> /dev/null
47 echo " *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries." 1>&2
48 echo " *** make menuconfig require the ncurses libraries" 1>&2
50 echo " *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again" 1>&2
57 printf "Usage: $0 [-check compiler options|-header|-library]\n"