Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:13:02 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/lib/libreadline/readline Makefile Message-ID: <20041018141302.GA88398@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20041018121120.GA67831@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200410180836.i9I8afRS060144@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041018090314.GA86525@ip.net.ua> <20041018090550.GA59302@nagual.pp.ru> <20041018091004.GC86525@ip.net.ua> <20041018091303.GC59302@nagual.pp.ru> <20041018091903.GD86525@ip.net.ua> <20041018092347.GA59835@nagual.pp.ru> <20041018092747.GB59835@nagual.pp.ru> <20041018115632.GA87870@ip.net.ua> <20041018121120.GA67831@nagual.pp.ru>
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--sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Andrey, On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:11:20PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:56:32PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Having a separate libtermcap library won't save anything with static > > linkage as long as it's a subset of libncurses. Ideally, the binary > > linked with the real termcap library which is a subset of the ncurses > > library will even be of the same checksum. >=20 > Of course, I mean crunched variant where whole library packed. >=20 Crunched binaries don't use whole libraries either. The many .o files just get linked with libraries the usual way. (Unrelated, but I thought I'd mention this anyway...) > > I have a simple question for you: in your opinion, what's wrong with > > replacing all these -l{curses,mytinfo,termcap,termlib,tinfo} with > > one true -lncurses? I planned doing it one day, but you seem to be > > against it, as follows from the above. >=20 > I am against it for the reasons I already explain, it put our sources int= o=20 > unneded implementation details deeps. >=20 OK, you made a decision. :-) But then perhaps you can tell me where the APIs for libcurses, libmytinfo, libtermcap, libtermlib, and libtinfo are documented, so one can decide which pseudo-library to link against in our case of libncurses? If you happen to know... Because I read README and it says it implements the System V curses API with some extensions, and it doesn't mention any of the above libs. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBc89uqRfpzJluFF4RAiGBAJ0fU7BBCzi4I3iRcQq/R9WHZZ+HhwCfQOu0 WZ2SXNxWyMEGuRRx+QrOAOw= =f5pH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu--
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