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Re: Determine when to use --enable-widec?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Determine when to use --enable-widec? |
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Thu, 30 May 2019 05:30:03 -0400 |
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On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:20:03PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Forgive my ignorance... How can I determine whether I should build a
> narrow or wide version of Ncurses? That is, when should I use
> --enable-widec?
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> My use case is updating Ncurses on old distros and distros which
> charge for updates. I use old distros for their old compilers and
> runtimes. I prefer to supply the same as the distro provided.
generally "ldd" shows the library pathname. If it shows "ncursesw",
that's widec. Some rename the library, but "nm" (or "nm -D") generally
show the symbols. If any have "_wch", that's widec, for instance.
(there's other cases as well, but that's the simple ones)
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