On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 02:01:32AM +0100, Pierre wrote:
> On 2002.11.15 16:33 Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> >On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Pierre wrote:
> >
> >> On 2002.11.14 00:37 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> > > Maybe... I can't check this anymore...
> >> >
> >> > How were the original libraries built? (or installed?)
> >> >
> >>
> >> It was a slackware package that was installed.
> >
> >I have Slackware 8.0 with the original libraries (so I can compare
> >with
> >that). My Slackware 3.6 and 7.1 ncurses libraries are reinstalled
> >(did
> >not run into problems). Which applications have problems with gpm
> >linking?
>
> Slackware 8.0 and 8.1 uses ncurses 5.2, but not compiled with
> --with-gpm.
> The applications that have problems with this are :
> more, emacs, setterm, top... I don't remember anything.
Those are all termcap-applications (or terminfo). That is, they can
all be
linked with ncurses (using its termcap interface), but there's no
function that
they would call in ncurses which in turn would call an entrypoint in
gpm.
That might be related to your problem.