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authorDylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>2020-09-18 09:48:48 -0700
committerDylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>2020-09-29 14:58:32 -0700
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dependencies/curses: Add support for using the ncurses config tools
These are mostly duplicated with pkg-config, but maybe someone has one but not another, and they're easy to turn on with the ConfigToolDependency.
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@@ -623,7 +623,9 @@ Curses (and ncurses) are a cross platform pain in the butt. Meson wraps up
these dependencies in the `curses` dependency. This covers both `ncurses`
(preferred) and other curses implementations.
-`method` may be `auto` or `pkg-config`
+`method` may be `auto`, `pkg-config`, or `config-tool`
+
+*New in 0.56.0* The `config-tool` method.
<hr>
<a name="footnote1">1</a>: They may appear to be case-insensitive, if the
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+## Improvements for the builtin curses dependency
+
+This method has been extended to use config-tools for lookup as well as
+pkg-config.