[Buildroot] [PATCH] ncurses: version bump to 5.8

Sergio Monteiro Basto sergio at sergiomb.no-ip.org
Wed Apr 20 17:55:02 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 18:06 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: 
> >>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio at sergiomb.no-ip.org> writes:
> 
>  Sergio> On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 12:31 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>  >> The problem is a null pointer access in tgetent. It seems to load the
>  >> terminfo file ok, but something goes wrong.
> 
>  Sergio> https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2845
> 
>  Sergio> we shoun't build curses with --with-termlib=tinfo 
> 
> Does that have anything to do with the crash? Your bug report (which I
> cannot reproduce) seems to be related to a build error rather than a
> runtime one.

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2845#c7

After you fix the build error, I wrote that we should built ncurses with
configure option  --with-termlib=tinfo , which Fedora use by default .
And you wrote to make a "patch adding optional tinfo build" , I done one
draft of the patch.

Since this bug in runtime, seems to be with terminfo, build with option
--with-termlib=tinfo , doesn't solve the problem ? 

> I've now just tested with a glibc toolchain (E.G
> qemu_arm_versatile_defconfig and select external codesourcery 2010.09
> toolchain) and stuff using ncurses (I tried htop) also crashes here, so
> it doesn't seem to be something specific to uclibc.
> 
> I've also tested ncurses 5.9 with the same results. with 2011.05 getting
> quite near, perhaps the best approach is to revert to ncurses 5.7?
> 

-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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