[Pyncurses-list] Debian packet for pyncurses-0.3

[Matthias R. <ra...@fs...>]

Dear *,

yesterday I downloaded the debianized version of pyncurses-0.3. Everytime
I tried "from ncurses import curses", I got an error saying "ImportError:
/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/ncurses/_curses.so: undefined symbol:
trace". After some research via "nm -D -g /usr/lib/libncurses.so", I found
out that the Debian version of libncurses.so does not contain the
debugging trace routines. This could also be the reason for an error I
saw on the mailinglist
(http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/2143/2000/11/0/4727576/).

After commenting out
  extern char *_nc_tracebits(void);
  extern char *_tracechar(const unsigned char);
  extern void trace(const unsigned int);
in "ncurses/_curses.i" and changing
  mcprint, has_key, _nc_tracebits, _tracechar, \
  trace, _nc_visbuf
to
  mcprint, has_key, _nc_visbuf
in "ncurses/curses.py" the examples seem to work fine (except for
menu_example.py which seems to have the same problems as mentioned by Tom
Newman in "http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/2143/2000/5/0/3689787/".)

Rebuilding the Debian-packet from source didn't work, because
"debian/rules" needed the missing files "compile.sh" and "install.sh". So
I had to re-debianize pyncurses. I submitted the patch to the tracker.

To Radovan: I don't want to "steal" your maintainership, I just don't want
to blame you for all the errors I possibly introduced.

share and enjoy, matthias
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