On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Matthias Klose wrote:
Package: ncurses
Version: 5.9-1
Severity: important
ncurses should be configured with --with-termlib so that packages which do not
rely on the symbols exported by ncurses/ncursesw, but only on symbols found in
libtermlib. Not having a libtermlib would need proliferation of non-wide/wide
library builds for every library depending on ncurses/ncursesw. The first
library needing this is libreadline.
See http://bugs.debian.org/602720 for the initial report and the discussion with
the upstream author. Building libtermlib seems to be the standard way to build
ncurses for other distributions.
Clarification:
a) the library itself is normally named "libtinfo".
b) the configure script option is named "--with-termlib".
Some other implementations for instance install symbolic links equating
libtermcap, libterm and libcurses (looking at Solaris). Rather than
use those names, I chose one that didn't conflict with existing usage.
(In retrospect, it might also have been a Good Idea to add a symlink
for libtinfo in the normal --without-termlib build, but again, that
can conflict one way or another...)
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Thomas E. Dickey
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