On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:53:48 +0100, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > Yes please!, I've also run into this issue on OpenBSD with the "catpoint" > presentation program. I've been meaning to send the exact same backport patch > . > > The upstream snapshot version of ncurses compiles fine on OpenBSD and I've > managed to link against it statically for testing purposes: > > https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/commits/master > > Maybe it is worthwhile to adopt the files to the structure in > /usr/src/lib/libcurses ? The current version lags almost 10 years behind and > probably misses more subtle fixes like this.
The problem is that we have some local changes and no one has spent the time to merge the upstream changes. - todd
