tech-pkg: Re: tcsh and Linux and ncurses

Subject: Re: tcsh and Linux and ncurses
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/27/2004 11:22:52

I guess libncurses satisfies the Linux Standard Base Core spec. I've
added your patch to pkgsrc, and committed a similar fix to the tcsh repo
as well.
Regards,
+ Kim
-- 
Kimmo Suominen
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:23:58PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On 2004年8月26日, Kimmo Suominen wrote:
> 
> > What Linux distribution are you using? The Linux systems that I've used
> > all have libcurses symlinked to libncurses.
> 
> All Linux components as installed from pkgsrc (or pkgsrc-wip).
> 
> So I have:
> 
> reed@puget:/usr/pkgsrc/misc/openoffice$ pkg_info -L ncurses | grep /lib/.*curses
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.a
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.la
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.so
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.so.5
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.so.5.4
> /usr/lib/libncurses.a
> /usr/lib/libncurses.la
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.4
> 
> > I don't think gencat should use LANG/LC_CTYPE from the environment to
> > validate catalog source files, so as you pointed out, that seems like a
> > gencat bug on the distribution you use.
> 
> It is gencat as provided from GLIBC built from source using my pkgsrc'd
> version.
> 
> > Out of curiosity, what is the LANG/LC_CTYPE value you had originally?
> 
> They were unset.
> 
> Jeremy C. Reed
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