Re: ANN: ncurses-6.0-20150606

[Sven Joachim]

On 2015-06-07 03:18 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> 20150606 pre-release
>       + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION,

Wow, a new major version after more than 15 years!  Thanks for doing
that.

>         with the
>         intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
>         "--with-abi=5" option.

Make that "--with-abi-version=5", then it seems to work.

>       + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
>         CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.

Regarding versioned symbols, what about the symbols added after the 5.9
release?  Those are currently tagged as NCURSES*_5.9.current, I always
thought this would not be their final labeling.

Cheers,
       Sven