Re: trying to solve some missing symbols during linking (porting to Plan9)

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Jeffrey,

At 2024-10-12T23:50:37-0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 9:51 AM G. Branden Robinson
> > These are termcap library symbols.  If you have ncurses installed,
> > the command "man BC" brings up their documentation.
> >
> > Bash's source distribution ships with a copy of GNU termcap (which
> > hasn't been maintained in many years, as far as I know), but as I
> > understand Bash's build process, it isn't used unless a termcap
> > library cannot be found on the system.  You may need to consult the
> > output of "./configure".
> 
> I may be mistaken, but I believe Thomas Dickey's Ncurses package
> provides something compatible for the old termcap, but I think you
> need to enable it at configure time.

Yes, that's true.

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_termcap.3x.html

Regards,
Branden

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