On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: >> >> Aaron Griffin wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Does anybody have a ncurses build list? I am building ncurses with only >>>> the >>>> wide-character libraries which should hopefully clear up a few of the >>>> locale >>>> issues with applications using it (e.g. FS#4418, FS#6384, FS#9872). The >>>> current situation is sort of between doing this and not (we have only >>>> the >>>> wide character include files but both libraries). >>>> >>>> After some initial problems (don't install an ncurses without a real >>>> libncurses.so before fixing readline & bash!), I have this up and >>>> working >>>> and most of the needed core rebuilds done. I'm thinking I will push it >>>> to a >>>> separate repo first so that I can get some testing of this by people >>>> with >>>> other locales before I push it to [testing]. >>>> >>> >>> Are you sure this actually fixes these issues? I suggested the same >>> thing a while back, but Roman pointed out something regarding Cyrillic >>> chars or something... I don't know the details, but it had to do with >>> the fact that not all locales are really UTF friendly. >>> >>> >> >> So I see.... (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4418#comment14208). Am I >> 100% percent sure? No. But I am quite confident (say 97%). From what I have >> read wide-character libraries work with both multibyte and 8-bit locales, >> while normal libraries work only in 8-bit locales. Anyway, that niggling 3% >> is why I don't want to push it directly to testing.... > > So I am now running a fully ncursesw system here and I have no problems. I > tested with a couple ISO-8859-n locales and all seems well. > > Does anybody have a good test case for something that was broken with the > old ncurses? Most of what I could find by searching in the bug tracker > appears to have been fixed by building against the ncursesw libraries > already. I can dump a tarball containing the rebuilt core packages (and > probably screen and lynx) if people would like to test these in a chroot.
Feel free to setup a repo in your public html. Like so (Allan, I know you have a grasp on this. I'm just being concise for other people if they ever want to do this): mkdir -p ~/public_html/ncursesw/ cp *.pkg.tar.gz ~/public_html/ncursesw cd ~/public_html/ncursesw repo-add ncursesw.db.tar.gz *.pkg.tar.gz
