Ncurses_source from HaikuDepot

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New nightly hrev51497, building my stuff, need terminfo functions in ncurses.

HaikuDepot can dig up ncurses, but I need .h files, hence “ncurses_x86_source”, which I reckon would be ncurses_x86_devel-5.9.11.

HakuDepot: "Fatal error occurred while installing package ncurses6_x86_source: Failed to find a match for “ncurses6_x86_source”()

This same error (mutatis mutandi) with mprf_x86_source, maybe any xxx_source, apparently. Am I doing something wrong?

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I suppose you need the ncurses_devel package, so install that. The sources package not required for you.

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Am I missing a “repository”?
The choices I get are

  • ncurses Active
  • ncurses6 Active
  • ncurses6_source Available (not)
  • ncurses6_x86 Active
  • ncurses6_x86_source Available (not)
  • ncurses_source Available (not)
  • ncurses_x86 Active
  • ncurses_x86_source Available (not)

I agree that it should not be necessary to install the source. For my older daily, I get ncurses_x86_devel instead of ncurses_x86_source, which makes more sense, but perhaps curses.h would ideally just come with ncurses. It doesn’t.

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OK, I downloaded ncurses_x86_devel-5.9-11 through the web interface, and that seems to be what I need. Just didn’t appear in HaikuDepot.

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You have to check the entry “Develop Packages” in the Show menu of HaikuDepot in order to see devel_packages, it’s not checked by default.

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OK, thanks - that’s what I missed. Might suggest, don’t enable Show “source packages” by default. With the source packages showing up, it isn’t real obvious that anything is getting filtered out.

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By default neither source nor devel packages are shown in HaikuDepot.