PHO authored 10 years ago and thoughtpolice committed 10 years ago

Summary:
If curses is installed into some non-standard path, we currently have
to say something like the following in mk/build.mk:

  libraries/terminfo_CONFIGURE_OPTS += \
      --configure-option=--with-curses-includes=/somewhere/include \
      --configure-option=--with-curses-libraries=/somewhere/lib

This is because the top-level configure does not accept nor propagate
--with-curses-{includes,libraries} to libraries while it does so for
iconv, gmp and libffi. It would be nice if curses were handled in the
same manner.

Test Plan: Install curses into some non-standard path. Then run the top-level "configure" script with options "--with-curses-includes=/path/to/curses/include" and "--with-curses-libraries=/path/to/curses/lib".

Reviewers: austin

Reviewed By: austin

Subscribers: thomie, PHO

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D665

GHC Trac Issues: #10096

(cherry picked from commit bbb57a6b)