From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:04:30 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Ncurses wide support In-Reply-To: <525D2EC3.5010600@zacarias.com.ar> References: <525D1693.3010509@zacarias.com.ar> <20131015133626.180de72d@skate> <525D2D6E.9000108@zacarias.com.ar> <20131015135906.10b43a4a@skate> <525D2EC3.5010600@zacarias.com.ar> Message-ID: <20131015140430.6886d63e@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Gustavo Zacarias, On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:02:11 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote: > On 10/15/2013 08:59 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > > 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. > > But that would require auditing which packages want/benefit from the > wide version and add some workarounds about that. For those who "want" ncursesw, the autobuilders will notice. For those who would "benefit", then it can just be progressively improved as users notice such cases. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com