[CFT] ncurses update

Rong-en Fan grafan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 10 06:18:41 PST 2007


On 1/6/07, Rong-en Fan <grafan at gmail.com> wrote:
> The ncurses in the base system is way too old, say 5.2. Now we
> have 5.6 in the portstree. I have a mega patch that update the base
> system's ncurses to 5.6. To test it,
>
> cd /usr/src
> fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/ncurses-5.6-fbsd7-20070106.diff.gz
> mkdir -p lib/ncurses/form lib/ncurses/menu lib/ncurses/ncurses lib/ncurses/panel
> zcat ncurses-5.6-fbsd7-20070106.diff.gz | patch -p0

The final patch is available at

http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/ncurses-5.6-fbsd7-20070110.diff.gz

The only different is c++ and test directories are removed. The code that
ache@ mentioned is corrected.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan


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