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[Opengrads-devel] Ncurses added to the supplibs

[Arlindo da S. <da...@al...>]

All,

  I just added ncurses-5.6 to the supplibs source tree.  Readline uses
either termcap or ncurses, whichever was present on the build machine. Since
some distributions only have termcap while others only have ncurses, this
has been a portability impedemente. A case in point is Hoop's i686 binaries
that Jennifer just announced. It fails on my mandriva box with the error

./grads: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

If you have built the supplibs from sources he is how to update:

% cd supplibs/src
% cvs upd -d GNUmakefile ncurses
% rm readline.*
% make install ALLDIRS="ncurses readline"

Then rebuild grads and ncurses should link statically.

     Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
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Re: [Opengrads-devel] Ncurses added to the supplibs

[Patrice D. <per...@fr...>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:08:04PM -0500, Arlindo da Silva wrote:
> All,
> 
>   I just added ncurses-5.6 to the supplibs source tree.  Readline uses
> either termcap or ncurses, whichever was present on the build machine. Since

In fact termcap is deprecated and in the future ncurses will be used
everywhere instead. In fedora, for example there is no termcap anymore
(or at least it isn't used by anything in fedora anymore).

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Pat