[Slackbuilds-users] qodem gitlab download

[B. Watson]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2026, Ben Collver wrote:

> Yes, i tried it.  I had to comment out the contributed .pl scripts
> in order to get the build to succeed.  Apparently even though the
> version numbers are the same, the source code archives differ.

I had worse trouble than that. The first compile (the ncurses build,
without --enable-x11) choked because the code contains calls to
PD_* functions (parts of PDCurses), even though the configure script
doesn't enable linking with PDCurses unless you --enable-x11... and I
don't want to disable the non-X build because that's what I actually
used, when I was using qodem.

At some point maybe I can revisit it. But it's confusing that the
author has (had) 2 separate tarballs on 2 sites that both claim to be
"version 1.0.1" but they build differently.

Path of least resistance was to just punt and keep using the tarball
I wrote the script for. It doesn't get updated upstream: I added it
to the repo in July of 2023 and there hasn't been a new version since
then.