Comment 12 for bug 598389

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Loïc Minier wrote:

> Thomas, I checked the NEWS from latest ncurses dev tarball and it seems
> a relatively harmless bunch of updates when compared to Ubuntu's current
> 5.7+20100313, but still quite a few.
>
> Do you see any issue in updating to this version, such as API/ABI
> changes (didn't see any myself) or things which could regress packages
> building against ncurses? Any serious known bugs pending a fix that you
> would know of/would be working on?

I don't know of any serious/unfixed bugs. Currently I'm working on the
configure script for the Ada95 tree, to incorporate shared libraries there
for the platforms that can support it. Once done with that, I have
unfinished work for the MinGW port (to get the process for making DLLs
working reliably, etc). Neither of those has any nasty problems. The
ongoing changes in working in those areas are rather complicated though.

> If instead you recommend I backport the individual fixes for -ldl and
> -D_GNU_SOURCE, is there a public VCS for ncurses, or should I diff
> tarballs to extra these?

I can supply a copy of the weekly patches, if that helps. Mostly it's the
configure script that you're interested in.

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