Call for Testers: ncurses 5.6 update

[Stefan Lambrev]

Hello,

Rong-en Fan wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev at sun-fish.com> wrote:
>> Rong-en Fan wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > ncurses in 6.x is pretty old. We have update-to-date ncurses in 7.x
>> > with wide character support now. The patch at
>> >
>> > 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/ncursesw-5.6-all-fbsd6-20070310.diff.gz 
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > gives you ncurses 5.6 and wide character support in 6.x. Please
>> > apply with 'patch -p0' under /usr/src.
>> >
>> > For more information, please visit
>> >
>> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/
>> >
>> > You can also find individual patches, say ncurses update and wide
>> > character support, there.
>> >
>> > Feedbacks and suggestions are welcome.
>> >
>> > P.S. Due to some lib32 issues, the patch above contains changes
>> > made by ru@ recently for src/Makefile.inc1.
>> make installworld failed:
>>
>> cd /usr/src; /usr/obj/usr/src/make.amd64/make -f Makefile.inc1 install32
>> mkdir -p /usr/lib32                     # XXX add to mtree
> [...]
>
> Sorry about this. I messed up the lib32 changes in the all-in-one patch.
> Could you please use this one instead?
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/ncursesw-5.6-all-fbsd6-20070312.diff.gz 
>

This works for me (at least make buildworld && make installworld 
finished without problems).

Should I recompile and the kernel again or the patch is only in contrib ? :)
>
> It should solve lib32 problem. Note that individual patches work well.
>
> Regards,
> Rong-En Fan
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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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