ncurses update to 6.0
Miroslav Lichvar
mlichvar at redhat.com
Wed Aug 19 08:15:58 UTC 2015
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:38:08PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> guestfish uses APIs from readline and libtinfo directly. It does not
> use ncurses APIs directly.
> So it is overlinked, but IIRC that's because you had to use
> `-lreadline -lncurses' to make readline work properly on some old
> systems.
Yeah, that was needed to allow the applications to make a choice
between libtermcap and libncurses.
> Can we replace that with `-lreadline'?
>
> Are there any implications for a program which actually uses
> termcap/libtinfo functions also?
If guestfish does need the terminfo functions, I think it should be
linked with libtinfo or libncurses (on systems where libtinfo is not
separated from libncurses).
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Miroslav Lichvar
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