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SOLVED: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake
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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
SOLVED: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Jan 2025 13:39:19 -0600 |
At 2025-01-05T13:30:06-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Yes--I forgot, if I ever knew, that my ncurses builds don't create an
> "ncurses6-config" program...just "ncurses6w-config". The former is
> found in /usr/bin, and the latter both in /usr/bin and
> $HOME/ncurses-HEAD/bin, with the latter winning because $PATH.
>
> So when I test "narrow" ncurses, I've only ever been testing Debian's
> ncurses5 packages. Oh great. Well, I know now.
And yup--that was it.
bkgd.c works as expected now, with no changes.
The issue here was not a programming goof, but a system configuration
management problem. When measuring the behavior of a library, it helps
to evaluate the version of interest instead of a 4-year old specimen.
> I'm thinking what I probably want to do is use the same compiler flags
> for all of my test scripts, and distinguish them only by the API they
> elect to use. It's not like libncursesw.so.6 is missing the narrow
> entry points.
Because the previous one was so embarrassing, I'm attaching my new
Makefile. Now with 73.9% less derp.
Thanks, Thomas and Bill, for steering me away from incorrect
explanations.
Regards,
Branden
Makefile
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- Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake, G. Branden Robinson, 2025/01/05
- Re: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake, Bill Gray, 2025/01/05
- Re: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake, G. Branden Robinson, 2025/01/05
- Re: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake, Thomas Dickey, 2025/01/05
- Re: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake, G. Branden Robinson, 2025/01/05
- Re: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake, Thomas Dickey, 2025/01/05
- Re: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake, G. Branden Robinson, 2025/01/05
- SOLVED: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake,
G. Branden Robinson <=
- Re: Help wanted with bkgd() rookie mistake, Thomas Dickey, 2025/01/05