Re: Some symbols missed in llib-ltinfo and llib-ltinfot for 6.1?

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 05:48:15PM +0000, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Am 28.02.2018 um 12:35 schrieb Dr. Werner Fink:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 09:18:04PM +0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> b) link everything against "ncurseswt"
> >
> > That means enforce every package to use the libncursew/libtinfow ?
> > At least all python3 and its modules could be an option
> 
> Or, alternatively, configure libncursesw with "--with-termlib=tinfo" and
> install the same tinfo library for the wide and non-wide configurations,
> getting rid of libtinfow entirely.  This is what Fedora and Debian do.

This I had done the last twenty years and run into a problem where last
year libtinfo and libtinfow become binary distinct resulting in a huge
number of bugs as every program using libncursesw had crashed

Werner

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