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Re: forcing applications to build against wide versions of ncurses


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: forcing applications to build against wide versions of ncurses
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:00:50 -0500
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On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I don't follow the statement about binary compatibility (unless you're
> saying that existing applications aren't relinked - but then GenToo
> recompiles everything).

people had originally wanted to just install libncursesw.so* as libncurses.so* 
and i wouldnt allow that as you're screwing up the ABI

> > can this safely be done in the first place ?  if you have an application
> > that is not wide character aware, is it safe to build/link it against the
> > wide version of ncurses ?
>
> iirc (am not at home to check) there's nothing that would prevent it
> from building/working.  There are probably applications with embedded
> Latin-1 strings that would be interpreted as if they were UTF-8 - that's
> one thing to watch out for.

ok, thanks for the info
-mike

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