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

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio at sergiomb.no-ip.org> writes:

Hi,

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

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

I haven't tried, but doesn't that just shuffle part of the ncurses
functions into libtinfo? I don't right away see why that would fix
anything, but I'll start a build now.

Besides this hypothetical fix, is there any other reason why
--with-termlib=tinfo would be preferable?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard