On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 18:49 +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to see termcap and libtermcap removed, and to use ncurses
> everywhere. termcap is an obsolete system for describing terminal
> capabilities, it has annoying size limitations for the description and
> libtermcap is an old, unmaintained code.
>
> The ncurses library has a termcap emulation which is internally using
> terminfo database. It isn't 100% accurate (see curs_termcap(3)), but
> should be ok for most applications. libtermcap's API and ABI are
> compatible with ncurses. So what would be required to replace
> completely libtermcap with ncurses?
[...]
> - Rebuild packages currently using libtermcap against ncurses. It
> would be good to choose one of libncurses{,w} and link all binaries
> with it; linking with libncursesw will probably require more patching
> of configure scripts as some of them are prepared for libncurses
> already.
touch libtermcap.c
gcc -shared -fPIC -Wl,-soname=libtermcap.so.2 -lncurses -o libtermcap.so
and then if you ship the created libtermcap.so with ncurses, you don't
have to rebuild or relink anything.
--
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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