Re: [Java-readline-devel] termcap vs. readline

[Bernhard B. <ma...@ba...>]

Thanks Sven,

I will update the project as soon as I find time (it will take a few weeks 
though)

Bernhard

> Hi,
>
> on newer linux-distros, termcap has been replaced by ncurses. Even
> /usr/include/termcap.h is provided by the ncurses package. Your makefile
> (at least version 0.8.0) still links against termcap. I wrote a simple
> patch for the make file so that libreadline links against ncurses
> instead of termcap. You may introduce some documented variables, so that
> the user can decide wether to choose ncurses or termcap.
>
> The patch is here:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63129
>
> It simply replaces "-ltermcap" by "-lncurses" - "make test" still works!
>
> In addition i noticed, that you didn't specify source- and
> target-version for javac. Failure to do so might cause you troubles in
> the future, since default source- and target-version of JDK1.5 aren't
> that backword-compatible anymore, they are 1.5 by default know (as far
> as i know). You should introduce variables for that in your Makefile.
>
> Thx
>    Sven
>
>
>
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