>
> Compiling dev20 on FreeBSD yesterday I was surprized with following:
> by default it was built with curses (no FANSY_CURSES, no colors).
> Trying --with-screen=slang shows "no slang library available"
It will build with slang afaik -- provided that slang is installed.
(I do test-build slang on the platforms where it builds - that's
about half of the platforms that I test on).
> and --with-screen=ncurses built it ok with colors.
>
> The question: could configure made some heuristics to use ncurses
> when the original curses have no color support?
>
> It was done automatically on Linux (perhaps, curses have a soft link
> to ncurses there).
That's the reason: lynx defaults to "curses", however that is installed.
It will be ncurses for any system where ncurses is the default curses
implementation.
> Leonid.
>
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