Use AX_WITH_CURSES for curses library discovery

Properly discovers libtinfow for customized systems (e.g., Gentoo) while
offloading search handling to autoconf builtins.

Additionally adds autoconf-archive as a buildtime dependency.

Fixes #250.

Signed-off-by: Marco Sirabella <marco@sirabella.org>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@calcurse.org>

.github/workflows/make.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - name: Install dependencies (Ubuntu)
-      run: sudo apt-get install asciidoc autopoint gettext xmlto
+      run: sudo apt-get install asciidoc autopoint gettext xmlto autoconf-archive
       if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
     - name: Install dependencies (MacOS)
       run: |
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ jobs:
         brew install asciidoc
         brew install gettext
         brew install xmlto
+        brew install autoconf-archive
         brew link --force gettext
         sudo mkdir /etc/xml
         sudo ln -s /usr/local/etc/xml/catalog /etc/xml/catalog

README.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ files from core packages (i.e., \*-devel or \*-dev packages), you may need to
 install those as well:
 
 * gcc
+* autoconf-archive
 * automake
 * autopoint
 * asciidoc

configure.ac

@@ -29,27 +29,12 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ctype.h getopt.h locale.h math.h signal.h stdio.h stdlib.h   \
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #                                                         Checks for system libs
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-AC_CHECK_FUNC(initscr,,
-[
-  available_ncurses="none"
-  for lib in ncursesw ncurses
-  do
-    AC_CHECK_LIB($lib, initscr,
-                 [available_ncurses="$lib"; break])
-  done
-  if test "$available_ncurses" = none; then
-    AC_MSG_ERROR(Either ncurses or ncursesw library is required to build calcurse!)
-  elif test "$available_ncurses" = ncursesw; then
-    AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ncursesw/ncurses.h],,
-                     [AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ncurses.h],,
-                                       AC_MSG_ERROR([Missing ncursesw header file]))])
-  else
-    AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ncurses/ncurses.h],,
-                     [AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ncurses.h],,
-                                       AC_MSG_ERROR([Missing ncurses header file]))])
-  fi
-  LIBS="$LIBS -l$available_ncurses"
-])
+AX_WITH_CURSES
+if test "x$ax_cv_ncursesw" != xyes && test "x$ax_cv_ncurses" != xyes; then
+  AC_MSG_ERROR(Either ncurses or ncursesw library is required to build calcurse!)
+fi
+
+LIBS="$LIBS $CURSES_LIBS"
 
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([pthread.h], [
     AC_CHECK_LIB(pthread, pthread_create, [