Re: Display difference between ncurses version 5.7 and version 6.0.0.20170708

[Rich Burridge]

On 07/20/2017 07:23 AM, Rich Burridge wrote:
> ...
>
> I tried copying the compiled xterm-color terminfo file from the
> Solaris 11.3 system (i.e. one build with ncurses 5.7), to the
> 11.4 system, but I still see the problem. It does suggest that there
> is a difference in the ncurses version 5.7 vs 6.0-20170408 code
> that is causing the difference.

And the winner is!   <drum roll> ...

You need to configure ncurses with:

--with-abi-version=5

If I do that, then my test program nicely works.

That's definitely how ncurses is configured on my Ubuntu LTS 16.04
system. I suspect it's true on Debian too.

Thanks for your help with this Thomas.