Re: acs_map symbol

[sylvain . bertrand]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 05:29:16AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 03:52:39AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:15:50PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>> 20111008
>>>     + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
>>>       of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
>>>       other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
>>> 
>>> I'd likely overlooked this because (to avoid interfering with Debian's
>>> packages) have generally put my test-libraries in /usr/local, and used
>>> rpath to help that.  However I might have stumbled over it "soon" since
>>> I'm in the process of reworking the test-package to put it in /usr (and
>>> not need rpath...).
>> 
>> Do you plan to move acs_map to libncurses? It's currently in libtinfo and
>> ncurses.h header.
> 
> It's in libtinfo because that's where the low-level initialization is done,
> and it's a member (or dependency) of the SCREEN structure.

Then, acs_map declaration would move to libtinfo specific headers and removed
from ncurses.h? I guess a lot of applications expecting acs_map in ncurses.h
will break (though I have no idea how many there are).
Actually, it will be the same issue for all symbols declared in ncurses.h which
are actually implemented outside libncurses.

>> Do you plan to fix it? (Use Requires instead of Requires.private in 
>> pkg-config
>> file)
> 
> I'd like to fix it, yes.

Thx! I will update my list of patches following the latest roll-up patch :)

best regards,

-- 
Sylvain