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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Ncurses wide support
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:59:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131015135906.10b43a4a@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <525D2D6E.9000108@zacarias.com.ar>

Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:56:30 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:

> > Not sure to follow the original problem. If nano needs ncursesw, why
> > don't you enable wchar support in your toolchain so that ncursesw gets
> > built?
> 
> Because ncurses (upstream) just builds the narrow or wide versions, not
> both. Currently we build only the narrow version no matter what.
> And IIRC some packages don't expect the wide version even if the
> toolchain is WCHAR.

ncurses is crap :)

A possible solution would be to have a package/ncursesw/ in Buildroot,
that does the same thing as package/ncurses/, but builds the ncursesw
library. This way, packages who want one or the other variant of the
library can have proper dependencies.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-15 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-15 10:09 [Buildroot] Ncurses wide support Ezequiel García
2013-10-15 10:18 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-10-15 10:48   ` Ezequiel García
2013-10-15 11:36     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-15 11:56       ` Ezequiel García
2013-10-15 11:56       ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-10-15 11:59         ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-10-15 12:01           ` Ezequiel García
2013-10-15 12:02           ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-10-15 12:04             ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-15 12:51               ` Thomas De Schampheleire

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