Re: Ncurses and wide-char/UTF-8

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Pierre wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just compiled fine ncurses with the --enable-widec option.
> My problem is that this creates libncurses++w.* and libncursesw.*
> libraries, but not the libncurses++.* and libncurses.* .
> It's not a real problem in itself, but the other softwares needing
> ncurses only checked for the libncurses.* files, generally.
> I could rebuild ncurses without the option to have the usual library
> files created, but I think that it would be better if all the files
> could be created in one same time. But I don't know if it's easily
> possible. What are your opinions on this ?

It wouldn't be easy - would require a lot of duplication of scripting
(or rethinking how the makefiles are setup).  Note that curses.h is
different (a superset, but still different), so it would have to generate
includes into a different location, the *.awk scripts would be rewritten
to provide various flavors, etc.

hmm - to answer the inevitable question, automake wouldn't help...

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