libgpm soname option

[Bryan Henderson]

I have struggled for years with the problems of libncurses and libgpm
prerequiring each other.  I just got Ncurses 5.5 and discovered that
the struggle is different now because libncurses loads libgpm
dynamically.

So I would like to suggest that there be a configuration option to
supply the soname of the libgpm to load, e.g. --with-libgpm=libgpm.so.1 .
When the user specifies that, 'configure' could skip the magic it does
to figure out the proper soname (which, incidentally, does not work on
my system).

Along with that, I suggest that the defaulting when 'configure' can't
figure it out and the user doesn't specify it be put in 'configure'
instead of in libmouse.c and the "configuration summary" that
'configure' writes as it exits include the soname, e.g. "soname for
dynamic loading of libgpm: libgpm.so".

I don't know enough Autoconf to write code for this myself.


One other comment in this area: under some conditions, I got
'configure' to warn me: "WARNING: GPM library is already linked with
curses - read the FAQ."  I don't know what that means, and I can't
find any FAQ.

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Bryan Henderson                                    Phone 408-621-2000
San Jose, California