Re^4: Uploads to chiark
Hi everybody,
Rob> >>>>> "M" == Michael Meskes <meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> writes:
Rob>
Rob> M> David Frey writes:
Rob> >> ?? If the claim holds that ncurses and libtermcap are
Rob> >> 1:1-compatible, you could (re)link every application which needs
Rob> >> termcap with ncurses and you wouldn't need libtermcap.so at all...
Rob>
Rob> M> But what if you only get a binary that is linked with libtermcap?
I was aware of that. The question was posed half in jest, half seriously
(hence the two question-marks).
Rob> Like Xinside's Accelerated X server. I had to poke around on ftp
Rob> sites until I found a precompiled libtermcap I could put into
Rob> /usr/local/lib. Maybe we should have a libtermcap-compat package. Of
Rob> course that might encourage people to be sloppy.
PS: libtermcap compiles cleanly out of the box.
PPS: ncurses is sometimes too large, e.g. for rescue disks (even compressed
ones :(), as I found out recently. I had to put ash instead of bash
on it.
Rob> By the way, I noticed that rpncalc is has a libtermcap dependency.
Rob> Shouldn't that package be recompiled?
Yes, I know. I've recompiled it locally, but I'm having a connection problem
to master.debian.org.
David
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