Re: ncurses 5.3 backwards compatibility

[Chris Zubrzycki]

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On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 01:56  PM, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> It appears you're talking about changes I made last year (see 20011208
> for instance).  Essentially yes a bug - in Mac's runtime loader if the
> configure script is reporting things properly.  It checks if a  
> workaround
> is needed to link in data items from a shared library, using functions
> to wrap them.  The workaround has been in ncurses for some time; last
> year I added acs_map to this case (cygwin's linker is more-broken than
> the previous benchmark ;-).
>
> Comparing with 5.2 though, and seeing the comment about strnames makes  
> it
> apparent that the problem isn't just my changes - the 5.2 version would
> have had the same issue with strnames.  I suspect that someone tweaked
> the 5.2 package (or the linker changed).  So that's the issue to  
> resolve.

Well, the 5.2 package was tweaked, and this time i'm trying to build  
using libtool so we get all the correct dynamic libs, but i cannot even  
rebuild lynx with 5.3 because of the undefined functions.

what we use for 5.2 is here, and you may be correct, our patch could  
have something to do with this:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/fink/dists/10.2/ 
unstable/main/finkinfo/base/ncurses-5.2-8.info?rev=1.1&content- 
type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/fink/dists/10.2/ 
unstable/main/finkinfo/base/ncurses-5.2-8.patch?rev=1.1&content- 
type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

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