Re: Has anyone compared ncurses against the two Solaris 8 curses libraries?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 22), Larry W. Virden said:
> I'm wondering if anyone has did an analysis of the curses that comes
> with Solaris 8, comparing it to ncurses.  In the past, we've always
> linked against -lcurses on Solaris for our 'production' code. 
> However, as we begin looking at moving to Solaris 8, I get this
> question from one of my developers:
> 
> Okay, I'll bite.  Which libcurses should we link against for Solaris 8?
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root bin   765864 Jan  5  2000 /usr/lib/libcurses.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other     16 Jun 22 12:40 /usr/lib/libcurses.so -> 
> ./libcurses.so.1
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin   463544 Jan  5  2000 /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin    91832 Jan  5  2000 /usr/ucblib/libcurses.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other     16 Jun 22 12:35 /usr/ucblib/libcurses.so -> 
> ./libcurses.so.1
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin    66312 Jan  5  2000 /usr/ucblib/libcurses.so.1
> 
> The /usr/lib version is more than 8 times the size of the /usr/ucblib
> version. Does it do something new and miraculous?

I would guess that /usr/ubclib/ holds the BSD curses library and
/usr/lib holds the SYSV curses library.  The stock BSD library is
pretty minimal.  Ncurses tries to emulate SYSV curses, so if you're
doing comparative testing, use /usr/lib.

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        Dan Nelson
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