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, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > > Do you know of any 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.
>
> Yes, but what I'm getting at is that (correct me if I'm wrong, Felix)
> Felix seems not to care about mouse input, and so he'd probably be
> satisfied with "./configure --without-gpm" if he had some confidence
> that everything else would still work.  Or is there anything you know
> of that completely breaks when ncurses is built that way?

no - it's supposed to work.  As I read his comment, it was along the lines 
of asking why I had to change the default configuration.  It was to
make the bulk of the ncurses installs work with gpm, rather than a small
fraction.

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