Re: dlsym not needed when linking statically

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Paul Jarc wrote:

> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> > > Obviously, zsh will also work without gpm support in ncurses.
> > > But what about mutt, for example?
> >
> > mutt won't either.
>
> Won't need gpm, or won't work without gpm?  Do you know of any

Won't use gpm.  mutt's developers decided that using a mouse was too hard
(read: slang and ncurses do it differently, no one else does mouse 
support).

> programs that will break (as opposed to just being mouse-unaware)
> without gpm support in ncurses?

That wasn't the issue.  The problem that I was addressing was that without
using a dynamic interface, existing packages for gpm make it difficult
(often impossible) to use gpm without building one's own libraries.

Since it's possible to suppress the gpm interface, aside from annoying
a handful of packagers making static libraries, the gain here is by
getting the system ncurses able to use gpm.  (And also it would shorten
my gpm faq ;-)

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