Re: libgpm soname option

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Bryan Henderson wrote:

> 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).

oh (I'd like to make the default value smarter - more info would be 
useful)

> 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".

sounds reasonable...

> 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.

        http://invisible-island/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html

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