--- /dev/null
+From 62ae1bf0206960d0ba5ff8f90238030e67f1a5cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:58:55 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] fix static linking with libedit or readline
+
+Use PKG_CHECK_MODULES to find libedit or readline and continue to use
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS as a fallback
+
+By using PKG_CHECK_MODULES, static link will work as -lncurses or -lbsd
+will be automatically added
+
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+[Upstream status: https://github.com/connectivity/neardal/pull/7]
+---
+ configure.ac | 14 ++++++++++----
+ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index f0cebed..211b896 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -68,10 +68,16 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(gio, gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.30,
+ AC_SUBST([gio_LIBS]),
+ AC_MSG_ERROR(gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.30 is required))
+
+-AC_SEARCH_LIBS([rl_initialize], [edit readline],
+- [AS_IF([echo $LIBS | grep -q "-ledit"],
+- [CPPFLAGS="-DHAVE_LIBEDIT $CPPFLAGS"])],
+- [AC_MSG_ERROR(editline or readline is required)])
++PKG_CHECK_MODULES(libedit, libedit,
++ [CPPFLAGS="-DHAVE_LIBEDIT $libedit_CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS"
++ LIBS="$libedit_LIBS $LIBS"],
++ [PKG_CHECK_MODULES(readline, readline,
++ [CPPFLAGS="$readline_CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS"
++ LIBS="$readline_LIBS $LIBS"],
++ AC_SEARCH_LIBS([rl_initialize], [edit readline],
++ [AS_IF([echo $LIBS | grep -q "-ledit"],
++ [CPPFLAGS="-DHAVE_LIBEDIT $CPPFLAGS"])],
++ [AC_MSG_ERROR(editline or readline is required)]))])
+
+ AC_PATH_TOOL([DOXYGEN], [doxygen])
+ AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_DOXYGEN], [test ! -z "$DOXYGEN"])
+--
+2.17.1
+
NEARDAL_DEPENDENCIES += libedit
endif
-# Both readline and libedit link with ncurses but the configure script
-# forgets to take that into account, causing the detection to fail
-# when linking statically
-ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
-NEARDAL_CONF_ENV += LIBS="`$(PKG_CONFIG_HOST_BINARY) --libs ncurses`"
-endif
-
define NEARDAL_INSTALL_NCL
$(INSTALL) -m 0755 -D $(@D)/ncl/ncl $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/ncl
endef