On 2011-05-30 12:49 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
>> On 05/30/2011 11:26 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>>
>>> Redhat and SuSE are using the feature (of ncurses) which allows the
>>> terminfo-level part to be built as a separate library. For low-level
>>> users such as readline, that helps since they can be linked against
>>> a library which is independent of ncurses/ncursesw differences.
>>
>> from the ncurses INSTALL:
>>
>> --disable-tic-depends
>> When building shared libraries, normally the tic library is linked to
>> depend upon the ncurses library (and in turn, on the term-library if
>> the --with-termlib option was given). The tic- and term-libraries
>> ABI does not depend on the --enable-widec option. Some packagers have
>> used this to reduce the number of library files which are packaged
>> by using only one copy of those libraries. To make this work
>> properly,
>> the tic library must be built without an explicit dependency on the
>> ncurses (or ncursesw) library. Use this configure option to do that.
>> For example
>> configure --with-ticlib --with-shared --disable-tic-depends
>
> Is the Debian package doing this part?
No, but AFAICS the relevant option is --with-termlib anyway, and
enabling that option would change the ABI.
Cheers,
Sven
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