Re: suggestions

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Marc Glisse wrote:

> Hello,
>
> just a few things I noticed with the CVS version of ncurses :
>
> On recent freebsd, one needs to define __BSD_VISIBLE in order to have
> access to u_short and such types when _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined.

How recent?  I've done compiles on 4.8 and 5.1

> Still on recent freebsd, it would be nice for the libraries to have
> sonames...

I suppose so.  I seem to recall that when shared libraries were setup,
FreeBSD had no (usable) support for sonames.  That's been a while though.

> Now on sparc-solaris2.8, sometime between 20030510 and 20030719, something
> was broken. When the widechar support is enabled, ncurses is not able to
> detect the vertical size of the terminal properly (xterm-165 in my case),
> and just uses the size defined in the terminfo entry, or the LINES
> variable from the environment. It works just fine with the same settings
> and terminfo on freebsd. I did not manage to find where this came from,
> sorry.

Fortunately I can test this directly (and yes, it does seem to be broken).

> Thank you for all your work on ncurses, which is a great library :-)

thanks

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net