#473: GRASS fails to compile without curses
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Reporter: marisn | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Installation | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords: configure, make
Platform: Unspecified | Cpu: Unspecified
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Comment (by glynn):
Not A Bug.
--without-curses is intended as a "hacking" option. If you use it, you're
on your own (and any modules which use curses/vask aren't going to
compile).
Given that it is almost never used, it wasn't deemed worth the effort of
explicitly conditionalising libraries and modules upon $(USE_CURSES).
Also, it's arguably better to have the list of missing libraries/modules
in error.log.
7.0 doesn't use curses at all, so this isn't applicable there.
I'm leaving this open for now, as I'm not sure whether to resolve it as
"invalid" or "wontfix".