➜  htop tree .
.
├── files
│   └── 0001-Use-pkg-config.patch
└── htop_git.bb

1 directory, 2 files
➜  htop cat files/0001-Use-pkg-config.patch
We need to use pkg-config to find the ncurses library instead of the
ncurses*-config applications.

Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <pbarker@toganlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Joslyn <robert.joslyn@redrectangle.org>

Upstream-status: Inappropriate
    (`ncurses*-config` can be used outside of OpenEmbedded)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 559dc4d..77aea22 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -185,10 +185,10 @@ m4_define([HTOP_CHECK_LIB],

 AC_ARG_ENABLE(unicode, [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-unicode], [enable Unicode support])], ,enable_unicode="yes")
 if test "x$enable_unicode" = xyes; then
-   HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncursesw6], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW], "ncursesw6-config",
-    HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncursesw], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW], "ncursesw6-config",
-     HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncursesw], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW], "ncursesw5-config",
-      HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncurses], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW], "ncurses5-config",
+   HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncursesw6], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW], "pkg-config ncursesw6",
+    HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncursesw], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW], "pkg-config ncursesw6",
+     HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncursesw], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW], "pkg-config ncursesw5",
+      HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncurses], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW], "pkg-config ncurses5",
        HTOP_CHECK_LIB([ncursesw6], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW],
         HTOP_CHECK_LIB([ncursesw], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW],
          HTOP_CHECK_LIB([ncurses], [addnwstr], [HAVE_LIBNCURSESW],
@@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ if test "x$enable_unicode" = xyes; then
          [AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ncurses/curses.h],[:],
             [AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ncurses.h],[:],[missing_headers="$missing_headers $ac_header"])])])])
 else
-   HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncurses6], [refresh], [HAVE_LIBNCURSES], "ncurses6-config",
-    HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncurses], [refresh], [HAVE_LIBNCURSES], "ncurses5-config",
+   HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncurses6], [refresh], [HAVE_LIBNCURSES], "pkg-config ncurses6",
+    HTOP_CHECK_SCRIPT([ncurses], [refresh], [HAVE_LIBNCURSES], "pkg-config ncurses5",
      HTOP_CHECK_LIB([ncurses6],  [refresh], [HAVE_LIBNCURSES],
       HTOP_CHECK_LIB([ncurses],  [refresh], [HAVE_LIBNCURSES],
       missing_libraries="$missing_libraries libncurses"

➜  htop cat htop_git.bb
# Recipe created by recipetool
# This is the basis of a recipe and may need further editing in order to be fully functional.
# (Feel free to remove these comments when editing.)

# WARNING: the following LICENSE and LIC_FILES_CHKSUM values are best guesses - it is
# your responsibility to verify that the values are complete and correct.
#
# The following license files were not able to be identified and are
# represented as "Unknown" below, you will need to check them yourself:
#   COPYING
LICENSE = "Unknown"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4099d367cd5e59b6d4fc1ee33accb891"

SRC_URI = "git://github.com/htop-dev/htop;protocol=https \
	file://0001-Use-pkg-config.patch \
"

# Modify these as desired
PV = "3.0.2+git${SRCPV}"
SRCREV = "e0e5997c53ca9b61171d01b5a30c40d915622de2"

S = "${WORKDIR}/git"

# NOTE: the following library dependencies are unknown, ignoring: malloc proc hwloc kvm kstat
#       (this is based on recipes that have previously been built and packaged)
DEPENDS = "libnl ncurses"

# NOTE: if this software is not capable of being built in a separate build directory
# from the source, you should replace autotools with autotools-brokensep in the
# inherit line
inherit pkgconfig autotools

# Specify any options you want to pass to the configure script using EXTRA_OECONF:
EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-unicode"