[Buildroot] Ncurses wide support

[Ezequiel García]

On 15 October 2013 08:59, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Gustavo Zacarias,
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:56:30 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
>
>> > Not sure to follow the original problem. If nano needs ncursesw, why
>> > don't you enable wchar support in your toolchain so that ncursesw gets
>> > built?
>>
>> Because ncurses (upstream) just builds the narrow or wide versions, not
>> both. Currently we build only the narrow version no matter what.
>> And IIRC some packages don't expect the wide version even if the
>> toolchain is WCHAR.
>
> ncurses is crap :)
>
> A possible solution would be to have a package/ncursesw/ in Buildroot,
> that does the same thing as package/ncurses/, but builds the ncursesw
> library. This way, packages who want one or the other variant of the
> library can have proper dependencies.
>

Yes, this should work. But is the added churn is acceptable?
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Ezequiel García, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar