Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

I have ncurses 6.4 installed locally with corresponding pkg-config files. I'd expect that configure will pick up that installation, but it seems to prefer the system installation.

I ended up running configure with explicit overrides for the CURSES and PANEL CFLAGS and LIBS variables:

 ../configure  ... CURSES_CFLAGS="$(pkg-config --cflags ncursesw)" CURSES_LIBS="$(pkg-config --libs ncursesw)" PANEL_CFLAGS="$(pkg-config --cflags panelw)" PANEL_LIBS="$(pkg-config --libs panelw)"

configure does pick up other local installs (sqlite, bz2, ...)

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-113565: Improve and harden detection of curses dependencies #119816
• [3.13] gh-113565: Improve and harden detection of curses dependencies (GH-119816) #121202
• [3.12] gh-113565: Improve and harden detection of curses dependencies (#119816) #121222