Call for Testers: ncurses 5.6 update

Andre Albsmeier Andre.Albsmeier at siemens.com
Tue Mar 20 07:45:31 UTC 2007


On Tue, 13-Mar-2007 at 00:45:24 +0800, 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

I am running this patch on 6.2-STABLE (i386). I have rebuilt
world and ports/mail/mutt-devel (using WITH_MUTT_NCURSES=1).
Everything seems to work and mutt also runs perfectly with UTF8.
Before applying this patch I had to use WITH_MUTT_NCURSES_PORT=1 :-).

Thanks,

	-Andre


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