Bug#898131: fbb: xfbbC lost ncurses support after rebuild

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2018-05-07 20:27 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Package: fbb
> Version: 7.07-3+b1
> Severity: important
>
> In ncurses 6.1+20180210-1, the libncurses5-dev and libncursesw5-dev
> packages had been merged into a single libncurses-dev package.  In fbb,
> this has the rather strange and undesirable effect that the configure
> script fails to properly detect support for either ncurses _or_
> ncursesw:
>
> ,----
> | checking for NcursesW wide-character library... yes
> | checking for working ncursesw/curses.h... yes
> | checking for working ncursesw.h... no
> | checking for working ncurses.h... yes
> `----
>
> Clearly "checking for working ncursesw.h... no" is broken,

There is actually no ncursesw.h in Debian, but we do have cursesw.h in
libncurses-dev (previously in libncursesw5-dev).

> and later xfbbC is not linked with -lncursesw or -lncurses.

I tried to replace the rather outdated m4/ax_with_curses.m4 file with
the version from the autoconf-archive package, but that did not fix the
problem. :-/

Cheers,
       Sven