Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date: Jan 15, 2009, 13:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20090115130659.GA18081@diku.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20090115014617.GC6937@b2j>

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote Thu, Jan 15, 2009:

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> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> > Yes, it works. You can either create a file called config.make with a
> > line saying:
> > 
> > 	LDLIBS = -lncursesw
> > 
> > or use the configure file. If you are not using the tarball generate it
> > with:
> > 
> > 	make configure
> 
> I use the git source. Even after make configure and  ./configure, it
> still links to the non-unicode ncurses.

I haven't tested the configure script on a lot of system, so it might be a bit debian/ubuntu/gentoo centered in that use of ncursesw requires the presence of a {/usr/incude/}ncursesw/ncurses.h header. Where are the unicode ncurses.h files found on your system?

> Should it make ncursesw as 
> default if detected available albeit this can be changed manually?

I would prefer that the "default" (running make without configure) has as few dependencies as possible. Since the unicode version of ncurses is probably more rare than the non-unicode version it is probably a bad idea to use ncursesw by default. However, if you use the configure script ncursesw is the default, when it is available.

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Jonas Fonseca