Simon Scheiwiller wrote:
Hi all
I want to recompile my lfs system with utf-8 support, but I don't want to
delete everything and start compiling for 3 days, so maybe I'll try to
recompile everything in lfs starting from ncurses and then everything in
blfs.
Don't do that. BLFS doesn't fully support UTF-8 yet, so UTF-8 support in
LFS is barely more than a useless toy now. And you definitely want
different flags than in BLFS.
so 1. is that actually possible or will I mess up my system for sure and
should therefore rather save the time and start from scratch?
It is surely possible. The issue is that you will definitely want a
different BLFS subset, so it's better to start from scratch :)
and 2. if it works, is ncurses used by EVERY package? or is it stated as a
requirement (not in blfs, but in README or INSTALL files in the package),
so I don't have to recompile everything?
readelf -d /path/to/program-or-libary | grep NEEDED
If this lists libncurses.so.5, the program or library has to be recompiled.
Then check yourself with:
ldd /path/to/program-or-libary
This should show libncursesw.so.5, not libncurses.so.5
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