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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:45:24 +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:  <6eb82e0703120945w2d9d99ccj8aff7764c1e72acc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45F5628F.2080300@sun-fish.com>
References:  <6eb82e0703110556x229e8fd8pcf6f8979be046d8f@mail.gmail.com> <45F5628F.2080300@sun-fish.com>

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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

It should solve lib32 problem. Note that individual patches work well.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan



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