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Re: [PATCH 08/45] man/curs_legacy.3x: Drop "NOTES" section.
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [PATCH 08/45] man/curs_legacy.3x: Drop "NOTES" section. |
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Sat, 25 May 2024 15:51:47 -0400 |
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 12:41:20PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> This material about macro available and opaque functions no longer seems
> necessary now that ncurses, as of 6.5, builds using the "opaque" ABI by
> default. The opaque configuration is no longer mentioned in the
> "ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS" section of "ncurses.3x", so that reference is
> stale. Checking of the preprocessor symbol "NCURSES_OPAQUE" would now
> be done only for specialized environments that have a separate,
> non-opaque ncurses library available.
...which makes _that_ an alternate configuration
(some packagers are not yet following the new default)
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
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