[PATCH] Check for ncursesw first when searching for "tgetent"

[Simon Marchi]

On 2018-01-31 04:04 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> Commit 5007d765ae09c10c7f3b18bb16841b9d2d59e181 ("Allow linking GDB
> with ncursesw") modified our configure.ac and included the check for
> "ncursesw" when searching for "waddstr".  However, there's one more
> place where we should check for "ncursesw" first:
> 
>   AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, [termcap tinfo curses ncursesw ncurses])
> 
> This patch changes the order of the libraries to be searched when
> looking for "tgetent", and puts "ncursesw" before "curses ...".
> 
> This is another patch we carry on Fedora GDB.

I think it makes sense, but can you expand on why this is needed?

Thanks,

Simon