{stdenv, fetchurl, unicode ? true}: let /* C++ bindings fail to build on `i386-pc-solaris2.11' with GCC 3.4.3: . It seems that it could be worked around by #including in the right place, according to , but this is left as an exercise to the reader. So disable them for now. */ cxx = !stdenv.isSunOS; in stdenv.mkDerivation (rec { name = "ncurses-5.9"; src = fetchurl { url = "mirror://gnu/ncurses/${name}.tar.gz"; sha256 = "0fsn7xis81za62afan0vvm38bvgzg5wfmv1m86flqcj0nj7jjilh"; }; patches = [ ./patch-ac ]; configureFlags = '' --with-shared --without-debug --enable-pc-files --enable-symlinks ${if unicode then "--enable-widec" else ""}${if cxx then "" else "--without-cxx-binding"} ''; # PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR is where the *.pc files will be installed. If this # directory doesn't exist, the configure script will disable installation of # *.pc files. The configure script usually (on LSB distros) pick $(path of # pkg-config)/../lib/pkgconfig. On NixOS that path doesn't exist and is not # the place we want to put *.pc files from other packages anyway. So we must # tell it explicitly where to install with PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR. preConfigure = '' export configureFlags="$configureFlags --includedir=$out/include" export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="$out/lib/pkgconfig" mkdir -p "$PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR" ''; selfNativeBuildInput = true; enableParallelBuilding = true; preBuild = # On Darwin, we end up using the native `sed' during bootstrap, and it # fails to run this command, which isn't needed anyway. stdenv.lib.optionalString (!stdenv.isDarwin) ''sed -e "s@\([[:space:]]\)sh @\1''${SHELL} @" -i */Makefile Makefile''; # When building a wide-character (Unicode) build, create backward # compatibility links from the the "normal" libraries to the # wide-character libraries (e.g. libncurses.so to libncursesw.so). postInstall = if unicode then '' ${if cxx then "chmod 644 $out/lib/libncurses++w.a" else ""} for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu; do if test -e $out/lib/lib''${lib}w.a; then rm -f $out/lib/lib$lib.so echo "INPUT(-l''${lib}w)" > $out/lib/lib$lib.so ln -svf lib''${lib}w.a $out/lib/lib$lib.a ln -svf lib''${lib}w.so.5 $out/lib/lib$lib.so.5 ln -svf ''${lib}w.pc $out/lib/pkgconfig/$lib.pc fi done; ln -svf . $out/include/ncursesw ln -svf ncursesw5-config $out/bin/ncurses5-config '' else ""; meta = { description = "GNU Ncurses, a free software emulation of curses in SVR4 and more"; longDescription = '' The Ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses Terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD Curses. The ncurses code was developed under GNU/Linux. It has been in use for some time with OpenBSD as the system curses library, and on FreeBSD and NetBSD as an external package. It should port easily to any ANSI/POSIX-conforming UNIX. It has even been ported to OS/2 Warp! ''; homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/; license = "X11"; maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ]; platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all; }; } // ( if stdenv.isDarwin then { postFixup = "rm $out/lib/*.so"; } else { } ) )