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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:55:09 +0800
From:      "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com>
To:        "Stefan Lambrev" <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for Testers: ncurses 5.6 update
Message-ID:  <6eb82e0703121055p47ac1eb2k2368ec1f03870dd5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45F59281.60907@sun-fish.com>
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On 3/13/07, Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Rong-en Fan wrote:
> > On 3/12/07, Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> wrote:
> >> Rong-en Fan wrote:
> >> > Hi folks,
> >> >
> >> > ncurses in 6.x is pretty old. We have update-to-date ncurses in 7.x
> >> > with wide character support now. The patch at
> >> >
> >> >
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/ncursesw-5.6-all-fbsd6-20070310.diff.gz
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > gives you ncurses 5.6 and wide character support in 6.x. Please
> >> > apply with 'patch -p0' under /usr/src.
> >> >
> >> > For more information, please visit
> >> >
> >> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/
> >> >
> >> > You can also find individual patches, say ncurses update and wide
> >> > character support, there.
> >> >
> >> > Feedbacks and suggestions are welcome.
> >> >
> >> > P.S. Due to some lib32 issues, the patch above contains changes
> >> > made by ru@ recently for src/Makefile.inc1.
> >> make installworld failed:
> >>
> >> cd /usr/src; /usr/obj/usr/src/make.amd64/make -f Makefile.inc1 install32
> >> mkdir -p /usr/lib32                     # XXX add to mtree
> > [...]
> >
> > Sorry about this. I messed up the lib32 changes in the all-in-one patch.
> > Could you please use this one instead?
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/ncursesw-5.6-all-fbsd6-20070312.diff.gz
> >
>
> This works for me (at least make buildworld && make installworld
> finished without problems).

Thanks for testing.

> Should I recompile and the kernel again or the patch is only in contrib ? :)

No you don't.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan



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