Re: termcap & ncurses on linux (was Re: segemntation fault)

["Kevin O'Brien" <Kevin.M.O'Brien@xxxxxxxx>]

Olivier Archer wrote:

> Mahdi Ben Jelloul wrote:
>
> > That is the information I needed.
> > The problem was that I installed and desinstalled termcap-compat after
> > installing libncurses5-dev so it removed  libtermcap.so.
> > I forced the reinstallation of libncurses5-dev and now everything
> > works well.
> >
> > I just have to register ....
> >
> > Encore merci,
> so libtermcap.so.2 is a link to libtermcap.so who is a link to 
> libncurses.so...
> Here some information on the same problem on poplog:
>
> http://www.poplog.org/talk/comp.lang.pop/2001/msg00018.html
> http://www.poplog.org/talk/comp.lang.pop/2001/msg00016.html
>
> So conclusion should be that linux (and since solaris 2.0) application 
> have to be recompiled with libncurses instead libtermcap. This is 
> perhaps true for other unix OS. This should avoid confusion.

Hello Olivier  -

Thanks for the information and sending those links discussing the 
issue..  I will look into eliminating the termcap dependency in Ferret 
builds and instead use the curses library for Linux distributions.  This 
change will be included in the next available release.

Thanks again for the info -

Kevin


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